CALLA´TIS
CALLA´TIS (
Κάλλατις,
Κάλατις,
Καλλατία, or
Καλλαντία), a large city of Thrace, on the coast of the Euxine.
It was a colony of Miletus (Mela, 2.2), and its original name Acervetis. (
Plin. Nat. 4.18.)
The author of the
Etym. May. describes it as a colony of Heracleia, which may mean nothing else but that, at a later period, fresh colonists were sent out from Heracleia. (Scyl.
Peripl. p. 29;
Strab. vii. p.319; Scymn.
Frag. 15;
Diod. 19.73,
20.25; Anonym.
Peripl. p. 12;
Steph. B. sub voce Procop.
de Aedif. iv. 11;
Ptol. 3.10.8;
Amm. Marc. 27.4.)
The town appears to have been flourishing down to a late period, and is now generally identified with the town of
Collat or
Collati. [
L.S]
