The Milesians, with the consent of Gyges,…
705 BCE to 694 BCE
The Milesians, with the consent of Gyges, king of Lydia, colonize Abydos around 700 BCE.
Probably originally a Thracian town, as Strabo has it, Abydos is located at Nara Burnu or Nagara Point on the best harbor on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont.
Across the strait on the European side lies Sestus, marking the shortest point in the Dardanelles, scarcely a mile broad.