Boryza (city)
Boryza was a Persian city in Thrace (Achaemenid satrapy of Skudra) founded by King Darius the Great ({{reign}}522–486 BC). Hecataeus of Miletus (died {{circa|476 BC}}) mentioned Boryza as being located in the land of the Thynians on the southwestern Black Sea coast to the north of Byzantium, modern day Bulgaria and Turkey.{{sfn|Rehm|2010|page=140}}{{sfn|Vassileva|2015|page=323}} The city was also mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium (fl. 6th century AD).{{sfn|Vasilev|2015|page=77}} According to the modern historian Miroslav Izdimirski, Boryza must have been the residence of a Persian hyparch.{{sfn|Izdimirski|2013|page=20}}
Boryza's precise location remains unknown and the date of its foundation is debated; it was either founded before or during Darius's European Scythian campaign.{{sfn|Vassileva|2015|page=323}}
References
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Sources
- {{cite journal |last=Izdimirski|first=Miroslav|title=Persian hyparchoi and strategoi in ancient Thrace according to Herodotus|journal=Orpheus: Journal of Indo-European and Thracian Studies |date=2013 |volume=20 |publisher=Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) |location=Sofia, Bulgaria|url=https://www.academia.edu/25458886}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Rehm |first1=Ellen |editor-last1=Nieling|editor-first1=Jens|editor-last2=Rehm|editor-first2=Ellen|title=The Impact of the Achaemenids on Thrace: A Historical Review|journal=Achaemenid Impact in the Black Sea: Communication of Powers|date=2010|publisher=Aarhus University Press|series=Black Sea Studies|volume=11|url=http://www.pontos.dk/publications/books/bss-11-files/bss-11-rehn-1|isbn=978-8779342606}}
- {{cite book |last1=Vasilev |first1=Miroslav Ivanov |title=The Policy of Darius and Xerxes towards Thrace and Macedonia |date=2015 |publisher=Brill |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rh2oBgAAQBAJ&q=mascames&pg=PA226
|isbn=978-9004282155}}
- {{cite book |last1=Vassileva |first1=Maya |editor1-last=Valeva |editor1-first=Julia |editor2-last=Nankov |editor2-first=Emil |editor3-last=Graniger |editor3-first=Denver |title=A Companion to Ancient Thrace |date=2015 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |isbn=9781444351040 |chapter=Persia}}
Further reading
- {{cite journal |last1=Izdimirski |first1=Miroslav |editor-last1=Panov|editor-first1=Ivo|editor-last2=Pourmohammad|editor-first2=Alireza|title=Boryza - a Persian polis in Ancient Thrace |journal=Proceedings of International Conference: Iran and Bulgaria in the Mirror of History (Past, Present, Future)|date=2015 |url=https://www.academia.edu/27310679 |language=Bulgarian}}