Myrcinus or Myrkinos (Ancient Greek: Μύρκινος[1] or Μύρκιννος[2]) was an ancient Greek city located in Macedonian Thrace, in the region of Edonis between the Strymon and the Nestos Rivers,[3] on the left bank of the Strymon.
It was within the territory of the Edonians, a Thracian tribe,[4] and was founded as a polis by colonists from Miletus in 497 BCE.
[5] The colonists were led by Histiaios[6] (already a Tyrant of Miletus), whom Darius had allowed to build a city in reward for his help.
Its site offered great advantages to settlers, as it contained an abundant supply of timber for shipbuilding, as well as silver mines.
[8][9] Afterwards, it had fallen into the hands of the Edoni; but on the murder of Pittacus, chief of that people, it surrendered to Brasidas[10] after he captured Amphipolis, Oesyme and Galepsus in 422 BCE.