Listed 3 sub titles with search on: Information about the place for destination: "SITHONIA Ancient area HALKIDIKI".
Total results on 29/8/2001: 16 Sithonia, 9 Sithonian
The central one of the three peninsulas running out from Chalcidice in Macedonia, between the Toronaic and Singitic gulfs. The Thracians were originally spread over the greater part of Macedonia; and the ancients derived the name of Sithonia from a Thracian king, Sithon. We also find mention of a Thracian people, Sithonii, on the shores of the Pontus Euxinus; and the poets frequently use Sithonis and Sithonius in the general sense of Thracicus.
This text is cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Sithonia (Sithonie, Herod. vii. 123; Steph. B.; Virg. Bucol. x. 66; Hor. Carm.
i. 18. 9: Longos), the central of the three prongs which run out into the Aegean
from the great peninsula of Chalcidice, forming a prolongation to the peak called
Solomon or Kholomon. The Sithonian peninsula, which, though not so hilly as that
of Acte, is not so inviting as Pallene, was the first, it appears, to be occupied
by the Chalcidic colonists.
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