Myus (Cilicia)
Town in ancient Cilicia
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Myus or Myous (Ancient Greek: Μυούς) was a town on the coast of ancient Cilicia, between Nagidus and Celenderis.[1] William Smith conjectured it to be the same place as the Myanda or Mysanda mentioned by Pliny the Elder;[2] and if so, also identical with the town of Mandane (Μανδάνη) mentioned in Stadiasmus Maris Magni as between Celenderis and Cape Pisidium or Posidium (modern Kızıl Burun),[3] from which it was only 7 stadia distant.[4][5] Modern scholarship tentatively accepts the identity with Myanda/Mysanda but rejects that of Mandane.[6]
Myus is tentatively located near Yenikaş in Asiatic Turkey.[7][6]
