Qualla: Selymbria https://qualla.com/selymbria en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:38 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Selymbria https://qualla.com/selymbria Selymbria: Introduction https://qualla.com/selymbria/ According to the geographer Strabo, the name means "the town of Selys" — and whoever Selys was, his city outlasted him by millennia. Selymbria sat on the Propontis, the ancient name for the Sea of Marmara, 44 Roman miles west of Constantinople and 22 east of Perinthus, at exactly the kind of middling strategic position that means a place gets visited, fought over, garrisoned, renamed, and then quietly resumes its old identity. It was renamed Eudoxiopolis — after the empress Eudoxia, wife of Emperor Arcadius — and bore that grander title for centuries. By the medieval period, the original name had crept back. Today the town is Silivri, but the ancient settlement runs beneath its streets and shores.

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/k/1/selymbria-wp/sxk1-selymbria-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Selymbria: Alcibiades at the Gates https://qualla.com/selymbria/ The first vivid appearance of Selymbria in history comes in 410 BCE, when Alcibiades — Athenian general, inveterate schemer, and one of antiquity's most brilliant troublemakers — was operating in the Propontis region. The people of Selymbria refused to open their gates to his arm...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/k/1/selymbria-wp/sxk1-selymbria-alcibiades-at-the-gates.mp3 0:06 2 full Selymbria: Emperors in Exile https://qualla.com/selymbria/ Selymbria's most dramatic political moments came during the Byzantine dynastic convulsions of the late fourteenth century. Three rulers used the town as a base at different points, each during periods of contested legitimacy: Andronikos IV Palaiologos held it from 1381 to 1385 af...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/k/1/selymbria-wp/sxk1-selymbria-emperors-in-exile.mp3 0:06 3 full Selymbria: Odd Footnotes https://qualla.com/selymbria/ Ancient sources preserve a few details about Selymbria that resist easy categorization. Pliny the Elder reported that the town was said to be the birthplace of Prodicus, a disciple of Hippocrates. The poet Polyidos of Selymbria won a dithyramb competition at Athens. Athenaeus, in...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/k/1/selymbria-wp/sxk1-selymbria-odd-footnotes.mp3 0:06 4 full Selymbria: Between Faiths and Councils https://qualla.com/selymbria/ In Christian late antiquity, Selymbria became the seat of a bishop, later elevated to an autocephalous archbishopric. By the time of Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, its metropolitan — unnamed in surviving records — was among the prelates who signed the letter to the pope concer...

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