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INEBOLI

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 509 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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INEBOLI , a See also:

town on the See also:north See also:coast of See also:Asia See also:Minor, 70 M. W. of See also:Sinai) (See also:Sinope). It is the first See also:place of importance touched at by See also:mercantile vessels plying eastwards from See also:Constantinople, being the See also:port for the districts of See also:Changra and See also:Kastamuni, and connected with the latter town by a See also:carriage road (see KASTAMUNI). The roadstead is exposed, having no See also:protection for See also:shipping except a See also:jetty 300 ft. See also:long, so that in rough See also:weather landing is impracticable. The exports (chiefly See also:wool and See also:mohair) Ire about £248,000 annually and the imports £200,000. The See also:population is about 9000 (Moslems 7000,Christians 2000). Ineboli represents the See also:ancient Abonou-teichos, famous as the birthplace of the false See also:prophet See also:Alexander, who established there (2nd See also:century A.D.) an See also:oracle of the snake-See also:God Glycon-Asclepius. This impostor, immortalized by See also:Lucian, obtained leave from the See also:emperor See also:Marcus Aurelius to See also:change the name of the town to lonopolis, whence the See also:modern name is derived (see ALEXANDER THE PAPHLAGONIAN).

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