Antandros:
For Antandros, an ancient city within the borders of Altinoluk, on the southern skirt of Mount Ida (Kaz Mountain), on the north shore of Edremit Bay, the ancient writer has a mountain called Strabon, Antandros, on the upper part, and these goddesses came to be chosen by Paris. He emphasized that Antandros hosted the beauty contest myth between Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. Ancient sources provide different information about the first founding phase of this important city in the Troas region. A Lelegian settlement according to Alkaios; A Kilikia organization according to Demetrios of Skepsis; a Pelasg settlement according to Herodotus, who is accepted as the father of history; According to Thucydides, it is an Aeolian settlement. Stephanos Byzantios claims that the city of Antandros has side names such as Edonis and Kimmeris and that Antandros was occupied by the Cimmerians for about a hundred years. From ancient sources, it is seen that the fame of the timber used in shipbuilding of the city of Antandros goes back to the famous Troia War, from the information obtained from Virgilius’s book Aeneas, which has survived until today. Antandros, which was an important shipyard in ancient times due to the timber obtained from Mount Ida, has attracted attention throughout history with this feature and whet the appetite of its adversaries. The Cimmerian occupation in Antandros, where there is contradictory information about its establishment, Croesus, son of Lydian King Alyattes, ended in 570s. B.C. After the Persian King Dareios was captured by Otanes, one of his commanders, around 508, he was under Persian command in Antandros, just like all Anatolia. Antandros, a member of the Attica-Delos Sea Union, was born in BC due to its dominance over the timber cut from Mount Ida. It maintained its feature of being a strategic place during the Peloponnesian Wars that took place in the last three of the 5th century. Daskyleion Satrap Pharnabazos sent them to Antandros to build a new navy as a result of the burning of the navy of Mindaros of Syrakuz by the Athenians in Kyzikos. Due to this maritime superiority, city domination changed hands quite often during the Peloponnesian Wars. After the city of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, located opposite Antandros, was captured by the Athenians, the exiles from Lesbos seized Antandros, which they had been eyeing for a long time. Realizing the danger of such an important city being in the hands of the enemy, the Athenians soon regained control of the city. As a result of the Persians being driven from Anatolia by Alexander the Great, Antandros, BC. It minted coins as a free city in the second half of the 4th century. Antandros, which is within the territory of the Kingdom of Pergamon in the Hellenistic period, later came under Roman rule like all Anatolia and turned into a bishopric center in the Christian period. Research on the determination of the ancient city of Antandros, which had an important position in antiquity, yielded its first fruit during the trips to the region in the middle of the 19th century. The presence of an inscription with the name Antandros on the wall of the Avcılar village mosque enables the location of the city to be determined. It is determined that the 215-altitude hill, known as Kaletaşı Hill today, descending perpendicular to the sea, is home to the city of Antandros.