Knidos or Cnidus, a city of high…

Knidos or Cnidus, a city of high antiquity and as a Hellenic city probably of Lacedaemonian colonization, is founded on the southern shore of the Gulf of Kos in the southwest corner of present Turkey, possibly as early as 900.

Along with Halicarnassus (present day Bodrum, Turkey) and Kos, and the Rhodian cities of Lindos, Kameiros and Ialysos, it forms the Dorian Hexapolis, which holds its confederate assemblies on the Triopian headland, and there celebrates games in honor of Apollo, Poseidon and the nymphs.