Tirida

Pliny the Elder writes "Oppidum fuit Tirida, Diomedis equorum stabulis dirum."[1][2] This Diomedes was the king of the Bistones who was in the habit of throwing strangers to be devoured by his savage horses, till at length he himself was punished in the same way by Heracles.[3] Based on the passage of Pliny, William Smith identified Tirida with the town called Stabulum Diomedis in the Itineraries, that was located on the coast of Thrace on the Via Egnatia, 18 M.P.[2] Also in the 19th century, William Hazlitt wrote that Stabulum Diomedis' site was that of the earlier Dicaea.[7] Other names borne by the settlement include Cartera Come or Kartera Kome, Turris Diomedis ('Diomedes's tower'), and Tyrida.
ancient ThracePliny the ElderBistonesHeraclesWilliam SmithVia EgnatiaAntonine ItineraryJerusalem ItineraryPorsulaMaximianopolis in RhodopeWilliam HazlittDicaeaMartialDe nuptiisregio MaroneaGeto-DacianTheodoric StraboNaturalis HistoriaSmith, WilliamDictionary of Greek and Roman GeographyPomponius MelaThe Classical GazetteerRichard TalbertBarrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman Worldpublic domain