Kent günümüz Gerze ilçe merkezinin altında kalmıştır. Gerze’de ilk yerleşimin MÖ 15. yyda Kaşkalar ile başlamış Hitit, Lidya, Pers, Rum, Roma, Doğu Roma egemenliği altına girmiş en sonunda Osmanlı ile devam etmiştir. Karoussa ismini MÖ 4-3 yy’da aldığı tahmin edilmektedir.

✶ Vikipedi - Düzenle

Carussa or Karoussa (Ancient Greek: Κάρουσσα), also spelt as Carusa or Karousa (Καροῦσα), also known as Polichnion,[1] was a Greek trading place (emporium) on the Black Sea coast of ancient Paphlagonia, south of Sinope, and 150 stadia from it.[2][3] It is also mentioned in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax as a Greek city; and by Pliny the Elder.[4] It was a member of the Delian League as it appears in tribute lists of ancient Athens.[5]

It is located near Gerze in Asiatic Turkey.[1][6]

  1. ^ a b Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 87, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
  2. ^ Arrian. Periplus Ponti Euxini. Vol. p. 15.
  3. ^ Marcian of Heraclea, p. 73.
  4. ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 6.2.
  5. ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 958. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  6. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.