Siderus (also known as Siderous; ) was a port town of ancient Lycia, referenced in the Periplus of Pseudo-ScylaxPeriplus of Pseudo-Scylax 100 and the Stadiasmus Maris Magni.Stadiasmus Maris Magni § 231. The town is also noted by Stephanus of Byzantium under the name Sidarus or Sidarous (Σιδαροῦς). The place may also have borne the name Posidarisus or Posidarisous, mentioned in The Chronicon of Hippolytus as being 30 stadia from Crambousa and the same distance from Moron Hydor.Hippolytus of Rome, The Chronicon of Hippolytus, §§ 483-484.
There was a promontory of the same name, which is identified by modern scholars as Adrasan Burnu in modern Turkey. 19th century writers William Martin Leake and William Smith equated the site of Siderus with that of Olympus.William Martin Leake, Asia Minor, p. 189; However, modern scholars place Siderus at Ceneviz Limanı.
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