Guide
Bisanthe was a small coastal town in antiquity, on the road between Tekirdağ and Kumbağ, ten kilometres southwest of the city. Its name changed over time to Panion and Panidos, and today the place is called Barbaros. Be clear about what survives: the ancient settlement lies beneath the modern town, and traces of it can be picked out only at the shore, at the cemetery, and at the spot known as Madenler.
The first pieces brought from Barbaros to the Tekirdağ Museum were a marble stele carved in high relief with a horseman, dated to the fourth century BC, and inscriptions in Greek. Excavations in 2006, south of the cemetery area west of the town, documented a church of the thirteenth century, and the same work traced the walls visible along the shore where they continue westwards. Between them these investigations established how far ancient Bisanthe extended in the Late Roman and Byzantine periods. At the Madenler site, black-glazed burnished pottery of the fifth century BC is found in quantity. Minibuses to Kumbağ from the central bus station serve the area.
