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OKALEI (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Ocalea, Ocaleia (Okalea, Okaleia: Eth. Okaleus). An ancient city of Boeotia,
mentioned by Homer, situated upon a small stream of the same name, at an equal
distance from Haliartus and Alalcomenae. It lay in the middle of a long narrow
plain, bounded on the east by the heights of Haliartus, on the west by the mountain
Tilphossium, on the south by a range of low hills, and on the north by the lake
Copais. This town was dependent upon Haliartus. The name is probably only a dialectic
form of Oechalia. Its site is indicated by several squared blocks on the right
bank of the stream.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
(Okalea). An ancient town in Boeotia, situated on a river of the same name falling into Lake Copais.
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