Sigeion

Sigeion was an ancient Greek city in the Troad region of northwestern Anatolia, at the mouth of the Scamander River near what is now Kumkale in Turkey's Canakkale Province, on a ridge between the Aegean Sea and the river. Founded by colonists from Mytilene in the 8th or 7th century BC, it became a contested prize between Mytilene and Athens in the late 7th century BC before Athens took control, and it remained closely tied to Athens as a member of the Delian League through the Classical period. It later came under Macedonian control and was abandoned sometime between 168 BC and 23 AD. Its name meant silent place, which ancient writers considered ironic given the area's notorious storms, and it was home to the geographer and historian Damastes of Sigeum.