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Δράκοντπήάσον
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A very strange word, quite incomprehensible to me:
Ref. https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Boztepe_hill,_Trabzon
The Dragon's fountain (Δράκοντπήάσον) is near Hoşoğlan village.[5] According to John Lazaropoulos' Logos on St. Eugenios of Trebizond, Alexios II of Trebizond killed a dragon at the site.
Please give the correct version of this place name, or the one by which it is known, and the meaning.
Best wishes, and many thanks,
Simon
A very strange word, quite incomprehensible to me:
Ref. https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Boztepe_hill,_Trabzon
The Dragon's fountain (Δράκοντπήάσον) is near Hoşoğlan village.[5] According to John Lazaropoulos' Logos on St. Eugenios of Trebizond, Alexios II of Trebizond killed a dragon at the site.
Please give the correct version of this place name, or the one by which it is known, and the meaning.
Best wishes, and many thanks,
Simon
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Δρακοντοπήγαδον
The source term is not really a greek word (too many stressed letters, to mention just one of the problems). Δρακοντοπήγαδον literally translates as the dragon's well. The final ν is there as per the pontic language tradition (the version of greek that was spoken in Trabzon area before 1923 and still survives in families of pontic origin).
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