Colophon

Colophon () was a titular See of Asia Minor . It was one of the twelve Ionia n cities, between Lebedos (ruins near Hypsili-Hissar) and Ephesus (Aya-Solouk).
The term "colophon" derives from the Late Latin ''colophon'', from the Greek κολοφων (meaning "summit", "top", or "finishing"). It should not be confused with Colophon , an ancient city in Asia Minor , the name of which derives from the Latin ''colophonium'', meaning "colophony" or Rosin .

In Greek antiquity two sons of Codrus , King Of Athens , established a colony there. It was the birthplace of the philosopher Xenophanes and the poet Mimnermus . It was destroyed by Lysimachus , one of the successors of Alexander The Great . Notium served as the port, and in the neighbourhood was the village of Clarus , with its famous temple and oracle of Apollo Clarius , where Calchas vied with Mopsus in divinatory science.

The cavalry of Colophon was renowned. Its pine trees supplied a Rosin or ''colophony'' highly valued for the strings of musical instruments. In Roman times Colophon lost its importance; the name was transferred to the site of Notium, and the latter name disappeared between the Peloponnesian War and the time of Cicero .

The " (Tit., iii, 12) are merely legendary; Euthalius was present at the Council Of Ephesus in 431, and Alexander was alive in 451.

The ruins of the city are at the Castro of Ghiaour-Keui, an insignificant village in the vilayet of Smyrna, caza of Koush-Adasi.

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