Percote
Περκώτη
Percote (Περκώτη: Eth. Περκώσιος), an ancient town of Mysia, on the Hellespont, between Abydos and Lampsacus, and probably on the little river Percotes. (Hom. Il. 2.835, 11.229; Xenoph. Hellen. 5.1.23.) Percote continued to exist long after the Trojan War, as it is spoken of by Herodotus (5.117), Scylax (p. 35), Apollonius Rhodius (1.932), Arrian (Arr. Anab. 1.13), Pliny (5.32), and Stephanus Byz. (s. v.). Some writers mention it among the towns assigned to Themistocles by the king of Persia. (Plut. Them. 30; Athen. 1.29.) According to Strabo (xiii. p.590) its ancient name had been Percope. Modern travellers are unanimous in identifying its site with Bergaz or Bergan, a small Turkish town on the left bank of a small river, situated on a sloping hill in a charming district. (Sibthorpe's Journal, in Walpole's Turkey, i. p. 91; Richter, Wallfahrten, p. 434.)
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.