Listed 2 sub titles with search on: Information about the place for destination: "RION Ancient city MESSINIA".
Some assume that it is the old name of the Messenian Asine (Ekd. Athinon, Pausaniou Periegissis, vol.3, p.161, note 1).
Rhion. A town in Messenia, in the Thuriate gulf, and also the name of one of the five divisions into which Cresphontes is said to have divided Messenia. (Strab. viii. pp. 360, 361.) Strabo describes Rhium as over against Taenarum (apenantion Tainaron), which is not a very accurate expression, as hardly any place on the western coast, except the vicinity of Cape Acritas, is in sight from Taenarum.
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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