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SOLION (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Sollium (Sollion: Eth. Sollieus), a town on the coast of Acarnania,
on the lonian sea. Its exact site is uncertain, but it was probably in the neighbourhood
of Palaerus, which lay between Leucas and Alyzia. Leake, however, places it S.
of Alyzia, at Stravolimiona (i. e. Port Stravo). Sollium was a Corinthian colony,
and as such was taken by the Athenians in the first year of the Peloponnesian
War (B.C. 431), who gave both the place and its territory to Palaerus. It is again
mentioned in B.C. 426, as the place at which Demosthenes landed when he resolved
to invade Aetolia. (Thuc. ii. 30, iii. 95, comp. v. 30; Steph. B. s. v. Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 18, seq.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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