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Cyzicus| Peninsula, about 14 km/9 mi in length, jutting out from the south coast of the Sea of Marmora, 110 km/68 mi southwest of Istanbul. It was an island when the city of Cyzicus was founded here 756 BC by colonists from Miletus. It was finally destroyed by the Arabs AD 675. |
| Cyzicene coins were called staters and were minted from electrum, a naturally occurring amalgam of gold and sliver. |
| In Roman times, the emperors Hadrian (ruled AD 117–38) and Marcus Aurelius (ruled AD 161–80) built a Temple of Venus at Cyzicus, 31 columns of which were still standing as late as 1444. Earthquakes repeatedly devastated Cyzicus, notably in the reign of the emperor Justinian. |
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