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OLYNTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A hamlet in Macedonia near Olynthus
And there was another Scolus among the cities in the neighborhood of Olynthus bearing the same name as this village.(Strabo 9.2.3)
Kantharolethros (death to beetles), a place in Thrace near Olynthus
Near Olynthus is a hollow place which is called Cantharolethron from what happens there; for when the insect called the Cantharos, which is found all over the country, touches that place, it dies.(Strabo 7.30)
SITHONIA (Ancient area) HALKIDIKI
Ampelos (Ampelos), a. promontory at the extremity of the peninsula Sithonia in
Chalcidice in Macedonia, called by Herodotus the Toronaean promontory. It appears
to correspond to the modern C Kartali, and Derrhis, which is nearer to the city
of Torone, to C. Dhrepano. (Herod. vii. 122; Step. B. s. v.; Ptol. iii. 13. §
12.)
GIGONOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Gigonis Prom (Gigonis akra, Etym. Mag. s. v. Egonis, Ptol. iii. 13.
§ 23), a promontory on the coast of the Crossaea, in Macedonia, with a town Gigonus
(Gigonos, Steph. B.), to which the Athenian force, which had been employed against
Perdiccas, marched in three days from Beraea. (Thuc. i. 61.) It appears, from
the order of the names in Herodotus (vii. 123), that it was to the S. of Cape
Aeneium, the great Karaburnu; hence its situation was nearly that of Cape Apanomi.
(Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 452.)
PALIOURI (Village) HALKIDIKI
The Cape Kanistro in Paliouri is on the South Part of the Kassandra Peninsula.
Canastraeum (Kanastpaion Kanastron: Eth. Kanastraios: Cape Paliuri),
the extreme point of the peninsula of Pallene. (Herod. vii. 123; Thuc. iv. 110;
Strab. vii. p. 330; Apollon. Rhod. i. 599; Ptol. iii. 13; Liv. xliv. 11; Plin.
iv. 10; Pomp. Mel. ii. 3. § 1; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 156.)
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