title: 9. The Cide-Şenpazar Region during the Hellenistic Period (325/300 - 1 BC)
abstract: The Cide-enpazar Region during the Hellenistic Period (325/300 -1 BC) Greek colonies were established along the Turkish Black Sea coast during the Archaic and Classical periods. The toponym of Kytoros,1 probably the cove of Gideros located to the west of the modern town of Cide, is first mentioned in Homer's Illiad (Hom. Il. 2. 853). This could potentially point to an even earlier Greek presence in the region (Drews 1976: 18; Tsetskhladze 1997). There is also as yet no archaeological evidence to