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GALIPSOS (Ancient city) SERRES
A colony of Thasos, on the coast of Thrace, which was taken by Brasidas
after the capture of Amphipolis (Thuc. iv. 107), and retaken by Cleon in the ensuing
year. (Thuc. v. 6.) Livy (xliv. 45) relates that Perseus, when flying from the
Romans, after the defeat at Pydna, sailed from the mouth of the Strymon to Galepsus
on the first day, and on the second to Samothrace, which renders it probable that
it was one of the most remarkable harbours of the intervening coast, which data
can only be reconciled at the harbour of Nefter, which is situated 2 hours to
the S. of Pravista, just within the Cape forming the W. entrance of the Gulf of
Kavala, where still remain the ruins of a Greek city, now known by the names of
Paleopoli, or Nefteropoli, or Dhefteropoli.
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
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