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Assa

ASSA (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
  Eth. Assaios. A town of Chalcidice, in Macedonia, on the Singitic gulf. (Herod. vii. 122.) It is probably the same town as the Assera of Theopompus (Steph. B. s. v. Assera), and the Cassera of Pliny (iv. 10), its territory being called Assyrytis (Assurutis) by Aristotle (Hist. An. iii. 12). Here was a river which was called the Psuchros from its coldness. (Aristot. l. c.) Leake places Assa at the head of the Singitic gulf, at some ruins called Paleokastro, about midway, by land, between Erisso and Vurvuri.

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