Sotira
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Sotira was a river and town of Anatolia mentioned by Pliny[1].
Variants
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Soti = Sotira (Pliny.vi.4)
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[2] mentions The region of Themiscyra, and the nations therein....Upon the coast there is the, Thermodon, which rises at the fortified place called Phanarœa4 and flows past the foot of Mount Amazonius.5 There was formerly a town of the same name as the river, and five others in all, Amazonium, Themiseyra, Sotira, Amasia, and Comana6, now only a Manteium. (4.)
4 Now called the Thermea.
5 Still called Mason-Dagh.
6 He alludes to Comana, in Pontus, the site of which is now called Gumenek, near to which, on the Tocat-su, the modern name of the Iris, Hamilton found some remains of a Roman town, and part of a bridge apparently of Roman construction. The language of Pliny seems to imply that it had become in his day nothing beyond a manteium or seat of an oracle.