Malagina

[GENick]

Does anyone know the exact location on Google Earth of the Byzantine aplekton Malagina in Bithynia?

[Mosaic]

Difficult one Nick. It's easy enough to locate the Sarkarya river on Google earth and especially where it enters the Black Sea, which strikes me as the likeliest location for this.
But what are we looking for, archaeologically - it's going to be a large camp / depot of a transient nature, rather than a fixed defensible area with large perimeter walls (i'm guessing).
So locating this exactly could be hard. I think the coastline has pushed further outwards over the last millennium with deposition - one strong clue would be where the lowest bridging point was at that time. If you have any idea of the Byzantine road system in the area that will help. I get an instinct that the road along the coast, and it's bridg over the Sarkarya, are more recent than that.

[jno]

this page says the location is known

http://www.jstor.org/...=4&sid=21101216264541

but doesn't say where; maybe it's later in the same work?

[ABerrant]

Clive Foss' theory is that Malagina was associated with a castle known as Metabole at Paşalar, overlooking Pamukova.

http://goo.gl/maps/nPZGq