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IION (Ancient city) KAVALA
Eion: Eth. Eioneus. A town and fortress situated at the mouth of the
Strymon, 25 stadia from Amphipolis, of which it was the harbour. (Thuc. iv. 102.)
Xerxes, on his return after the defeat at Salamis, sailed from Eion to Asia. (Herod.
viii. 118.) The Persian Boges was left in command of the town, which was captured,
after a desperate resistance, by the Athenians and their confederates, under Cimon.
(Herod. vii. 107; Thuc. i. 98; comp. Paus. viii. 8. § 2.) Brasidas attacked it
by land and by boats on the river, but was repulsed by Thucydides, who had come
from Thasos with his squadron in time to save it. (Thuc. iv. 107.) It was occupied
by Cleon; and the remains of his army, after their defeat at Amphipolis, mustered
again at Eion. (Thuc. v. 10.) Extensive ruins of thick walls, constructed of small
stones and mortar, among which appear many squared blocks in the Hellenic style,
have been found on the left bank of the Strymon beyond the ferry. These ruins
belong to the Byzantine period, and have been attributed to a town of the Lower
Empire, Komitisse, which the Italians have converted into Contessa. These remains
at the ferry stand nearly, if not exactly, on the site of Eion on the Strymon.
(Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 172.)
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
A town in Thrace, at the mouth of the Strymon, twenty-five stadia from Amphipolis, of which it was the harbour.
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