Caron Portus
Καρῶν λιμήν
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.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.