Καστάβαλα - Stephanos Ethnika

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Καστάβαλα, Κιλικίας [καὶ Φοινίκης] πόλις. Στράβων ιβʹ. ὁ πολίτης Κασταβαλεύς. [ἐνταῦθα Ἀρτέμιδος ἱερόν,] ἣ καὶ Περασία ἐκαλεῖτο.

Kastabala: a city in Cilicia [and Phoenicia]. Strabo, book 12. A citizen is a 'Kastabaleus'. [Here there is a sanctuary of Artemis,] who was also called Perasia.

Text Details

Entry	#116
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 366.3
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-19
Word count	17
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	ιβ (12,2,7 [C 537,23])

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Καστάβαλα	Kastabala (Castabala) · place · corrected · Q948243
Κιλικία	Cilicia · place · corrected · Q620864
Φοινίκη	Phoenicia · place · corrected · Q41642
Κασταβαλεύς	Kastabalean (citizen of Kastabala) · people
Ἄρτεμις	Artemis · deity · corrected · Q39503
Περασία	Perasia · place
Kastabala in Cilicia	place · city · Cilicia · explicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	Kastabala: a city of Cilicia (and Phoenicia).
Morphological Composition	the citizen (demonym) Kastabaleus.
Unclear Metalinguistic	which was also called Perasia.

Links

Place links	Castabala \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0314.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.