SUCCI
Eth.
SUCCI or
SUCCORUM ANGUSTIAE, the principal pass of Mount Haemus in Thrace, between Philippopolis and Serdica, with a town of the same name. (
Amm. Marc. 21.10.2,
22.2.2,
26.10.4.)
It is called
Σοῦκις by Sozomenus (2.22), and
Σουσάκεες by Nicephorus (ix 13). Now the pass of
Ssulu Derbend or
Demir Kapi (Comp. V. Hammer,
Gesch. des Osman. Reichs, i. p. 175.)
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