Classical scholars have at times identified various towns in Thrace as corresponding to Caenophrurium. Recent scholarship locates Caenophrurium near the modern Turkish village of Sinekli, in
Silivri district,
Istanbul Province. The
Barrington Atlas includes Caenophrurium as one of 24
komes (towns) and
choria (villages) in the province of Europa. These were smaller settlements than the 14 cities of the province listed by
Hierocles in his
Synecdemus (c. 527–528): the provincial capital (
Heraclea Perinthus) and 13 others. Logically, this might place Caenophrurium on the
Marmara coast near
Silivri. Instead, it appears that Caenophrurium was actually sited inland, to the north of the main Via Egnatia, on a smaller northern route from
Byzantium to
Bizye. Other writers have identified Caenophrurium with Tzirallum (modern
Çorlu), but this seems unlikely as several sources list Tzirallum and Caenophrurium as separate places. For example, the
Antonine Itinerary lists Caenophrurium as two stages and 36 miles closer to Byzantium than Tzirallum, Lewis and Short's
A Latin Dictionary of 1879 identified Caenophrurium as "a town in Thrace, on the road from
Apollonia to
Selymbria, now Bivados". As well as the
Historia Augusta's Life of Aurelian and
Lactantius's De Mortibus Persecutorum, they cite
Flavius Eutropius 9, 15 as a source. Apollonia corresponds to modern Sozopol, in Bulgaria, and Selymbria is Silivri, on the Marmara coast. However, Bivados appears to be
Epibatos, now the modern Turkish village of
Selimpaşa, about east of Silivri. As with Çorlu, this appears to be a misidentification. ==Murder of Aurelian==