Location information

Egition is placed in the Paliokastro location of Strountza, to the S of the Mornos lake.

Aegitium

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Aegitium

Haighition. A town in Aetolia Epictetus, on the borders of Locris, situated in the midst of mountains, about 80 stadia from the sea. Here Demosthenes was defeated by the Aetolians, B.C. 426. Leake places it near Varnakova, where he found the remains of an ancient; city. (Thuc. iii. 97)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)
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