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ANTANDROS

Volume 2 · 54 words · 1797 Edition

(anc. geog.) a town of Mycia, on the sea-coast, at the foot of mount Alexandria, a part of mount Ida, (Strabo, Ptolemy): it was a town of the Leleges, (Strabo); anciently called Edonis, then Cimnemis, (Pliny, Stephanus.) It takes its name from Antandros, a general of the Æolians: it is now called S. Dimitri.