Aeolium
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.302, 23.182
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: town in ancient Macedonia, belonging to the Delian League
History
Aeolium or Aioleion was a town of Chalcidice in ancient Macedonia. It belonged to the Delian League since it appears in the tribute registry of Athens for the years 434/3, 433/2 and 429/8 BCE, where it paid a phoros of 500 drachmas. It also appears in a treaty of alliance between the Athenians and Bottiaeans dated to 422 BCE, from which it is deduced that it belonged to the territory of Bottiaea. However, in a fragment of Theopompus collected by Stephanus of Byzantium, Aeolium is cited as a city of the Thracian Chersonesus.