Genetes
Γενήτης
Genetes (Γενήτης), the name of a small river and harbour on the coast of Pontus, near Cotyora. (Strab. xii. p.548; Steph. B. sub voce Scylax, who calls it Γενέσιντις. Some authors also mention a promontory (ακρα Γενηταία) in that neighbourhood (Steph. B. sub voce l.c.; Apollon. 2.1009; V. Fl. 5.148); and Pliny (6.4) speaks of a people Genetae in the same district.
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.