Bathys Rhyax

Bathys Rhyax, possibly also called Krya Pege, was a town of ancient Pontus on the road from Berissa to Sebasteia, inhabited during Byzantine times. Anna Komnene mentions that the town had a shrine to the martyr Theodore.

Its site is located 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Yıldızeli in Asiatic Turkey.

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