Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography/Adramyttium

​ADRAMY′TTIUM or ADRAMYTE′UM (Ἀδραμύττιον, Ἀδραμύττειον, Ἀτραμύττιον, Ἀτραμύττειον: Eth. Ἀδραμύττηνός, Adramyttenus: Adramiti or Edremit), a town situated at the head of the bay, called from it Adramyttenus: and on the river Caicaus, in Mysis, and to on the road from the Hellespontus to Pergamum. According to tradition it was founded by Adramys, a brother of Croesus, king of Lydia; but a colony of Athenians is said to have subsequently settled there. (Strab. p. 606.) The place certainly became a Greek Iowa. Thucydides (v. 1; viii. 108) also mentions a settlement here from Delos made by the Deliain whom the Athenians removed from the Island B.C. 422. After the establishment of the dynasty of the kings of Pergamum, was a seaport os some note; and that it had some shipping, appears from a passage in the Acts of the Apostles (xxvii. 3). Under the Romans it was a Coventus Judicus in the province of Asia, or place to which the inhabitants of the district resorted as the court town. There are no traces of ancient remains. [ G. L. ]