Myrmecium
Μυρμήκιον
Myrmecium (Μυρμήκιον, Strab. xi. p.494; Pomp. Mela, 2.1.3; Plin. Nat. 4.26; Anon. Peripl. p. 4; Steph. B. sub voce Jornand. Get. 5), a Milesian colony on the Cimmerian Bosporus, 20 stadia N. of Panticapaeum. (Strab. vii. p.310.) Near the town was a promontory of the same name. (Ptol. 3.6.4; Leo Diac. 9.6.) It is the modern Yenikalé or Jenikalé, where many ancient remains have been found. (Clarke, Trav. vol. ii. pp. 98, 102; Dubois de Montpereux, Voyage au Caucase, vol. v. p. 231.)
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.