Peuce Island

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Peuce in ancient geography was an island located near one of the mouths of the Danube, in the Danube Delta in the Romanian portion of Dobrudja. Its name came from the ancient Greek word peuke, 'pine tree'. It was about the size of the island of Rhodes.

It was to this island that the Triballian king Syrmus took refuge when pursued by Alexander the Great. Alexander lost the Triballian's trail once Syrmus ensconced himself deep in Scythia Minor.

A portion of the powerful Bastarnae tribe (probably of mixed Germanic-Celtic blood) settled on the island, apparently in the 2nd century BC, and adopted from their abode an alternative tribal name, "Peucini", used by some classical authors to cover sections of the Bastarnae tribe which had never set foot on the island.

Peuce island is also thought to be the birthplace of Alaric I (Alaric or Alarich; in Latin, Alaricus) king of the Visigoths from 395–410.

Peuke is not to be confused with the offshore cliff/island nearby, Leuke.

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