Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . nous Periplus of the Euxine (p. 14) Mesembriawas founded by Chalcedonians at the time of theexpedition of Darius against Scythia ; but accordingto Herodotus (vi. 33) it was founded a little later,after the suppression of the Ionic revolt, by Byzantineand Chalcedonian fugitives. These statements may,however, be reconciled by supposing that the Thra-cian town was oiiginally colonized by Megarians, andafterwards received additional colonists from By-zantium and Chalcedon. Mesembria was one of thecities, forming the Greek Pentapolis on the Euxine,the other
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . nous Periplus of the Euxine (p. 14) Mesembriawas founded by Chalcedonians at the time of theexpedition of Darius against Scythia ; but accordingto Herodotus (vi. 33) it was founded a little later,after the suppression of the Ionic revolt, by Byzantineand Chalcedonian fugitives. These statements may,however, be reconciled by supposing that the Thra-cian town was oiiginally colonized by Megarians, andafterwards received additional colonists from By-zantium and Chalcedon. Mesembria was one of thecities, forming the Greek Pentapolis on the Euxine,the other four being Odessus, Tomi, Istriani and Apol-loniatae. (See Bockh, Inscr. vol. ii. p. 996.) Me-sembria is rarely mentioned in history, but it con-tinued to exist till a late period. (Jlela, ii. 2 ;Plin. iv. 11. s. 18 ; Ptol. I. c.; Tab. Pent.) 2. A Greek city of Thrace, on the Aegaean Sea,. COIN OF MESEMBRLV. MESOPOTAMIA. and not far from the mouth of the Lissus. (II oilvii. 108; Steph. B. s. v.) MESENE (meavi^rj, Strab. ii. p. 84), a smalltract of land in ancient Mesopotamia, about position of which there has been much dis-cussion, owing to the indistinct and confused ac-counts of it which have been preserved in ancientauthors. The real cause of this would seem to bethat there were two districts at no great distanceone from the other, both of which, from similarreasons, bore the name of Mesene, or of these was near the mouths of the Tigriswhere that river is divided into two branches, cor-responding to the modern tract called Shat-al-Arab(Steph. B. «. V. M(ar]VTi.) To this Mesene mustbe referred the passage in Philostorgius (B. 7), in which he states that the Tigris, before itreaches the .sea, is divided into two great branches,forming an extensive island, which is inhabited bythe Meseni. To this also belongs the Mesene, men-tioned in t
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