Arisba

Arisba or Arisbe (Ancient Greek: Ἀρίσβη; Eth.

Ἀρισβαίος), was a town of Mysia, mentioned by Homer in the same line with Sestos and Abydus.

[1] It was between Percote and Abydus,[2] a colony of Mytilene, founded by Scamandrius and Ascanius, son of Aeneas.

[3] The army of Alexander the Great mustered here after crossing the Hellespont.

[4] When the wandering Gauls passed over into Asia, on the invitation of Attalus I, they occupied Arisba, but were soon defeated, in 216 BCE, by Prusias I of Bithynia.