This article is about the ancient Ionian city. see also
Kymi for the Greek form of Cyme Cyme, (or Kymi, also: Phriconis), modern Namurt was an ancient Greek city in
Aeolis (
Asia Minor) close to the kingdom of
Lydia. The
Aeolians regarded Cyme as the largest and most important of their twelve cities, which were located on the coastline of
Asia Minor (modern day
Turkey). As a result of their direct access to the sea, unlike most non-landlocked settlements of the ancient world, trade is believed to have prospered. In his Histories,
Herodotus makes reference to Cyme (or Phriconis) as being one of the cities in which the rebel Lydian governor Pactyes attempted refuge, following the attempted rebellion against
Cyrus the Great: Pactyes, when he learnt that an army was already on his tracks and near, took fright and fled to Cyme, and
Mazares the Mede marched to
Sardis with a detachment of Cyrus' troops. Finding Pactyes and his supporters and his supporters gone, the first thing he did was to compel the Lydians to carry out Cyrus' orders - as a result of which they altered from that moment their whole way of life; he then sent a demand to Cyme that Pactyes should be surrendered, and the men of the town decided to consult the oracle at
Branchidae as to whether they should obey...The messengers returned home to report, and the citizens of Cyme were prepared in consequence to give up the wanted man. (
Herodotus: 1.157)
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