39°2′N26°48′E / 39.033°N 26.800°E /39.033; 26.800
| Canae Κάναι | |
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  Location within Turkey | |
| Place in the Roman world | |
| Province | Asia |
| Nearby water | Aegean Sea (Dikili Gulf) |
| Events | Battle of Arginusae |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 39°2′19″N26°48′53″E / 39.03861°N 26.81472°E /39.03861; 26.81472 |
| Place name | Kane Promontory (Cane) |
| Town | Bademli |
| County | İzmir |
| State | Dikili District |
| Country | Turkey |
| Site notes | |
| Discovery year | 2015 |
Canae/ˈkeɪ.niː/ (Ancient Greek:Κάναι;Turkish:Kane) was, inclassical antiquity, a city inancient Aeolis, on the island ofArgennusa in theAegean Sea off the modernDikili Peninsula on the coast of modern-dayTurkey, near the modern village ofBademli.[1][2] Today Argennusa has joined the mainland as the Kane Promontory off the Dikili Peninsula. Canae is famous as the site of theBattle of Arginusae in 406 B.C.[1][3][4]
Canae is mentioned by the ancient writersHerodotus,Strabo,Pliny,Livy,Ptolemy,Sappho,Thucydides, andMela.[5][6]
According to the first-centuryGreek geographerStrabo, Canae was founded byLocrians coming fromCynus in eastern Greece.[5][7] Canae was built on the island ofArgennusa (also spelt Arginusa), beside a small promontory hill variously calledMount Cane/ˈkeɪ.niː/ (Ancient Greek:Κάνη),Aega/ˈiːɡə/ (Αἰγᾶ), orArgennon/ɑːrˈdʒɛnən/ (Ἄργεννον).[5][7][8] The name Canae (Κάναι) means "(city) of Mount Cane"; the district that included Argennusa and the neighboring two islands ofGarip andKalem was called Canaea.[5]
According to the 5th-century B.C. Greek historian Herodotus, the massiveAchaemenid army ofXerxes I passed Mount Cane on its way fromSardis to theBattle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C.[5][9][10]
During thePeloponnesian War, an Athenian fleet commanded by eightstrategoi unexpectedly defeated aSpartan fleet underCallicratidas off the coast of Canae in 406 B.C. in theBattle of Arginusae.[6]
During theRoman–Seleucid War, fought between theRoman Republic andAntiochus the Great in 192–188 B.C., the Roman navy wintered in Canae on their way to Chios.[5]Livy writes that "the ships were hauled on shore and surrounded with a trench and rampart."[11]
By the time ofPliny the Elder in the first century A.D., the city was deserted.[5][12]
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