Armene

{{short description|Town in ancient Paphlagonia}}

Armene ({{langx|grc|Ἀρμένη or Ἁρμένη or Ἀρμήνη}}) was an ancient Greek city[https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/graeca/Chronologia/S_ante06/Skylax/sky_p070.html Pseudo Scylax, Periplous, § 89] on the Black Sea coast of ancient Paphlagonia.{{Cite Stephanus|s. v. Ἀρμένη}} Xenophon in his Anabasis writes that the Ten Thousand on their return anchored their ships here, and stayed five days.{{Cite AnabasisX|6.1.15}} The place belonged to the Sinopians. It was 50 stadia west of Sinope, and had a port.{{Cite Strabo|p. 545}} A small river, named Ochosbanes by Marcian of Heraclea,Marcian of Heraclea, Periplus, p. 72. and named also Ochthomanes in the Anonymous Periplus, and Ocheraenus in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, falls into the harbour.

Strabo writes that there was the proverb, "whoever had no work to do walled Armene."[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-grc1:12.3.10 Strabo, Geography, §12.3.10]

Its site is located near Akliman in Asiatic Turkey.{{Cite Barrington|86}}{{Cite DARE|27461}}