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AKANTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Xerxes, after having enumerated his armaments, pushed on with the entire army, and the whole fleet accompanied the land forces in their advance as far as the city of Acanthus, and from there the ships passed through the place where the canal had been dug into the other sea expeditiously and without loss.
MENDI (Ancient city) KASSANDRA
At this time the city of Mende also revolted to the Lacedaemonians and made the quarrel over Scione the more bitter. Consequently Brasidas removed the children and women and all the most valuable property from Mende and Scione and safeguarded the cities with strong garrisons, whereupon the Athenians, being incensed at what had taken place, voted to put to the sword all the Scionaeans from the youth upward, when they should take the city, and sent a naval force of fifty triremes against them, the command of which was held by Nicias and Nicostratus.They sailed to Mende first and conquered it with the aid of certain men who betrayed it; then they threw a wall about Scione, settled down to a siege, and launched unceasing assaults upon it. (Diod. Siculus 12.72.7-9)
AKANTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
From there, keeping on his left hand the gulf off Poseideion, Xerxes traversed the plain of Syleus (as they call it), passing by the Greek town of Stagirus, and came to Acanthus.
AFYTIS (Ancient city) KASSANDRA
In Pallene besieged by Lysander, people of A. revere Ammon.
AGION OROS (Mountain) HALKIDIKI
AKANTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
In Chalcidice, on the isthmus of Mt. Athos, one of Xerxes' chief halting-places on his march.
ANTHEMOUS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town in Macedonia.
ASSA (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town in the Singitic gulf west of Athos.
EGIS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Α town in Pallene.
GALIPSOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town on the promontory of Sithonia, in Chalcidice.
GIGONOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Α town in Chalcidice.
HALKIDIKI (Ancient area) GREECE
Most towns of Ch. taken by Agesipolis.
KASSANDRA (Peninsula) HALKIDIKI
In Thrace, giants born at.
LIPAXOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town in Chalcidice.
LISAE (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
MENDI (Ancient city) KASSANDRA
A town on the promontory of Pallene in Chalcidice, people of M. dedicate statue at Olympia.
MIKYVERNA (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town on the Sithonian promontory of Chalcidice.
OLYNTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Ιn Chalcidice, besieged and taken by Artabazus, attacked by Lacedaemonians under Agesipolis.
PILOROS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town on the Singitic gulf west of Athos.
POTIDEA (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town in Pallene, besieged by Artabazus but not taken, Potidaeans in Pausanias' army, Potidaeans fight at Plataea, they are twice banished, afterwards restored by Cassander, afterwards called Cassandrea, treasury of Potidaeans at Delphi.
New name for Potidaea, tyranny of Apollodorus at.
SARTI (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town on the Singitic gulf W. of Athos.
SERMYLI (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
SINGOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town on the Singitic gulf west of Athos.
SITHONIA (Ancient area) HALKIDIKI
The central peninsula of Chalcidice.
SKIONI (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town on the promontory of Pallene, in the local confederacy.
TORONI (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A town in Chalcidice, on the Sithonian peninsula, Herakles at.
AKANTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Here, too, is to be seen a canal, in the neighborhood of Acanthus, where Xerxes dug a canal across Athos, it is said, and, by admitting the sea into the canal, brought his fleet across from the Strymonic Gulf through the isthmus. Demetrius of Scepsis, however, does not believe that this canal was navigable, for, he says, although as far as ten stadia the ground is deep-soiled and can be dug, and in fact a canal one plethrum in width has been dug, yet after that it is a flat rock, almost a stadium in length, which is too high and broad to admit of being quarried out through the whole of the distance as far as the sea; but even if it were dug thus far, certainly it could not be dug deep enough to make a navigable passage; this, he adds, is where Alexarchus, the son of Antipater,163 laid the foundation of Uranopolis, with its circuit of thirty stadia.
OLYNTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
What is now called Macedonia was in earlier times called Emathia. And it took its present name from Macedon, one of its early chieftains. And there was also a city Emathia close to the sea. Now a part of this country was taken and held by certain of the Epeirotes and the Illyrians, but most of it by the Bottiaei and the Thracians. The Bottiaei came from Brete originally, so it is said, along with Botton as chieftain. As for the Thracians, the Pieres inhabited Pieria and the region about Olympus; the Paeones, the region on both sides of the Axius River, which on that account is called Amphaxitis; the Edoni and Bisaltae, the rest of the country as far as the Strymon. Of these two peoples the latter are called Bisaltae alone, whereas a part of the Edoni are called Mygdones, a part Edones, and a part Sithones. But of all these tribes the Argeadae, as they are called, established themselves as masters, and also the Chalcidians of Euboea; for the Chalcidians of Euboea also came over to the country of the Sithones and jointly peopled about thirty cities in it, although later on the majority of them were ejected and came together into one city, Olynthus; and they were named the Thracian Chalcidians.(Stabo 7.11)
Olynthus was seventy stadia distant from Potidaea.(Strabo 7.28)
The naval station of Olynthus is Macyperna, on the Toronaean Gulf.(Strabo 7.29)
Commentary: Argeadae = The name appears to have been derived from the Macedonian Argos, i.e., Argos Oresticum
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited May 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
OURANOUPOLIS (Ancient city) AGION OROS
Demetrius of Scepsis, however, does not believe that this canal was navigable, for, he says, although as far as ten stadia the ground is deep soiled and can be dug, and in fact a canal one plethrum in width has been dug, yet after that it is a flat rock, almost a stadium in length, which is too high and broad to admit of being quarried out through the whole of the distance as far as the sea; but even if it were dug thus far, certainly it could not be dug deep enough to make a navigable passage; this, he adds, is where Alexarchus, the son of Antipater, laid the foundation of Uranopolis, with its circuit of thirty stadia.
POTIDEA (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
After Thessaloniceia come the remaining parts of the Thermaean Gulf
as far as Canastraeum; this is a headland which forms a peninsula and rises opposite
to Magnetis. The name of the peninsula is Pallene; and it has an isthmus five
stadia in width, through which a canal is cut. On the isthmus is situated a city
founded by the Corinthians, which in earlier times was called Potidaea, although
later on it was called Cassandreia, after the same King Cassander, who restored
it after it had been destroyed. The distance by sea around this peninsula is five
hundred and seventy stadia. And further, writers say that in earlier times the
giants lived here and that the country was named Phlegra; the stories of some
are mythical, but the account of others is more plausible, for they tell of a
certain barbarous and impious tribe which occupied the place but was broken up
by Heracles when, after capturing Troy, be sailed back to his home-land. And here,
too, the Trojan women were guilty of their crime, it is said, when they set the
ships on fire in order that they might not be slaves to the wives of their captors
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited Mar 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
SANI (Ancient city) KASSANDRA
It (Pallene) has four cities, Aphytis, Mende, Scione, Sane.
SINGOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Derrhis is a headland that rises opposite to Canastraeum and forms the gulf; and directly opposite Berrhis, towards the east, are the capes of Athos; and between is the Singitic Gulf, which is named after Singus, the ancient city that was on it, now in ruins.
SITHONIA (Ancient area) HALKIDIKI
The Chalcidians of Euboea also came over to the country of the Sithones and jointly (with the Argeadae) peopled about thirty cities in it, although later on the majority of them were ejected and came together into one city, Olynthus; and they were named the Thracian Chalcidians
AKANTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
The same summer, without loss of time, Brasidas marched with the Chalcidians against Acanthus, a colony of the Andrians, a little before vintage.
GIGONOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Advancing by short marches, on the third day they arrived at Gigonus, where they encamped.
MENDI (Ancient city) KASSANDRA
Meanwhile Mende revolted, a town in Pallene and a colony of the Eretrians, and was received without scruple by Brasidas, in spite of its having evidently come over during the armistice, on account of certain infringements of the truce alleged by him against the Athenians.
POTIDEA (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
STAGIRA (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Not long after (the revolt of Acantians), Stagirus, a colony of the Andrians, followed their example and revolted (from Athens).
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