now Ereklı, a Greek city of Bithynia, on the S. shore of the Euxine Sea, about 130 miles from Byzantium. It was a joint colony of Megara and the Brotian Tanagra; but the date of its foundation is unknown. From its position and its excellent harbours, it soon attained to great prosperity and power, and reduced under its sway the Mariandyni and the other tribes lying between the Parthenius and the Sangarius, a distance of nearly 120 miles. Its decline began with the quarrels between the people and the aristocracy, in the course of which a private citizen, by name Clearchus, usurped the power about B.C. 380. Under him and his immediate successors, the city still continued to flourish, but a combination of the Bithynian princes, jealous of its prosperity, stripped it of its territory. Its ruin was completed by the Romans in the Mithridatic War. Aurelius Cotta took the town, and its splendid library, baths, and temples, were burned to the ground. Under the emperors, however, the town revived, and is described as a flourishing port so late as the reign of Manuel Comnenus. The modern town of Ereklı rises in the form of a sort of amphitheatre from the sea, and presents many traces of its past magnificence. Its walls, in many places of great height and thickness, are crumbling into ruins, as its castle has already done. The harbour, though neglected, is still a good one, and some ship-building is carried on. Ereklı exports in considerable quantities timber, silk, and wax; and has, besides, a large import trade.