Hieron Oros was a town ofancient Pontus on theBlack Sea coast ofAsiatic Turkey. Though now disappeared, the site is thought to have been around 25km west ofTrabzon at the northeastern tip of Çarşıbaşı-Fener municipality, on a cape that's now topped by a French-built lighthouse dating from 1886.[1] Though the lighthouse is now in a village known as Fener, the lighthouse itself still bears the name Yoroz, one of three names (along with Ieros and Oros) reported for the place by 19th-century British travellerH. F. B. Lynch who described it in 1893 asthe promontary of the "sacred mountain".[2] According to Barrington, the site is also known as İncir Liman (literallyFig Harbour)[3][4] though the local name for the small fishing port is Yoroz Limanı.
The anonymous 8th-centurygeographer of Ravenna places Hieron Oros 90stadia east ofCerasus, itself 60 stadia east ofCoralla (sited where today is the town ofEynesil)
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