and known today as Kurbagalidere (meaning "Frog Brook" or literally "Brook with frog(s)" in Turkish), flows into Fenerbahçe Bay. There, Greek colonists from Megara in Attica founded the settlement of Chalcedon in 685 BC, some seventeen years before Byzantium.

Etymology

The Greek name of the ancient town was derived from its earlier Phoenician

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