CARON PORTUS
CARON PORTUS (
Καρῶν λιμήν), a port town in Moesia, on the coast of the Euxine, in a district called Caria or Cariae, and to the SE. of the modern town of
Gülgrad. (Mela, 2.2; Arrian,
Peripl. p. 24; Anonym.
Peripl. p. 13.)
As to the probability of Carians having established colonies in those parts, see Raoul-Rochette,
Hist. des Colon. vol. iii. p. 318.
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