Cebrene

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Cebrene – also spelled Kebrene or Kevrin, and for a time called Alexandria and also Antiochia in Troad (Greek: Αντιόχεια της Τρωάδας) – was an ancient city in the Troad, a region of northwest Anatolia. The ruins of the city are situated on the Simois river, a left tributary of the Scamander (now the Küçük Menderes) river, approximately 10 km south of Bayramiç in Canakkale Province, in the Asian part of Turkey. Cebrene was also the name of a river which flows into the Simois at Cebrene. [1]

Cebrene is named either for the river god Cebren or for the charioteer of Trojan War hero Hector. [2] The city was renamed Alexandria in honor of the conqueror in approximately 300 BC. After the death of Antigonus in 281 BC, the city was taken by Antiochus I who renamed the city for himself. The city and its surrounding region, called Cebrenia, appear in Strabo's Geography (Book XIII, ch. 33). Strabo reports that the inhabitants of Cebrene (the Cebreni) and those of nearby Scepsis were rivals, but that both cities' populations were transferred to Antigonia (later Alexandria Troas) on the coast.