Colonae
Κολωναί
Colonae (Κολωναί) or COLONE, a town in the Troad, 140 stadia from Ilium. (Strab. pp. 589, 604; Thuc. 1.131; Xen. Hell. 3.1. 13; Paus. 10.14.1.) According to tradition, Colonae was in early times the residence of a Thracian prince Cycnus, who possessed the adjoining country and the island of Tenedos, opposite to which Colonae was situated on the mainland. Colonae was probably one of the towns from which the inhabitants were removed to supply the population of Alexandria in Troas. Pliny (5.30) places it in the interior, and speaks of it as one of the places that had disappeared.
There was a Colonae near Lampsacus on the Hellespont, a foundation of the Milesians. (Strab. p. 589; Arrian, Arr. Anab. 1.12.11.)
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.