Cebrén

This name is linked to a mixed Greco-Anatolian mid-7th and early 6th century BCE community. It looks like it originally came from “K(ebren),” not excluding that it may be an Akkadian or Hittite word. In Greek mythology, Kevrín (Κεβρήν) or Kevrinós (Κεβρηνός) was a river god corresponded to a tributary of Skamandros in Asia Minor. Kevrin is said to have had two daughters: Oinonis, Nymph of Ides who married Paris before he abducted the beautiful Helen, and Asterope, who married Aeacus. Kevrina does not refer to the ancient city of Kevrina, which may have been named after the river. The earliest Greek archaeological remains found at Cebren date to the mid-7th and early 6th century BCE and were found together with indigenous pottery, suggesting a multi-ethnic community.