Aegae
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.586, 23.555
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient town in Euboea, near which a sanctuary of Aegean Poseidon was built upon a hill
History
Aegae or Aigai was a town on the west coast of ancient Euboea, north of Chalcis and a little south of Orobiae, opposite the mainland city of Anthedon. It had disappeared in the time of the geographer Strabo. Strabo records a sanctuary of Aegean Poseidon on a mountain nearby.