Tirida, also known as Stabulum Diomedis or Stabulo Diomedis (both Latin for 'Diomedes's stable'), was a town of

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writes "Oppidum fuit Tirida, Diomedis equorum stabulis dirum." This Diomedes was the king of the

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who was in the habit of throwing strangers to be devoured by his savage horses, till at length he himself was punished in the same way by

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. Based on the passage of Pliny,

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identified Tirida with the town called Stabulum Diomedis in the Itineraries, that was located on the coast of Thrace on the

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, 18 M.P. according to the

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, 12 M.P. according to the

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, from Porsula (or

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). Also in the 19th century,

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wrote that Stabulum Diomedis' site was that of the earlier Dicaea.

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talks about Tyrida in his ''

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'', noting that it was located near ''

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''. Some have suggested the town belonged to Geto-Dacian enclave. Modern scholarship accepts the identification of Tirida with Stabulum Diomedis, but rejects the identification with Dicaea, leaving the site of Stabulum Diomedes as unlocated but probably near Anastasioupolis. Other names borne by the settlement include Cartera Come or Kartera Kome, Turris Diomedis ('Diomedes's tower'), and Tyrida.

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died here in 481 CE.Marcellinus Comes, 481.1.

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