Besa
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.725, 22.973
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Locris
History
Bessa was a town in ancient Locris, so called from its situation in a wooded glen. It is mentioned by Homer, in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad. It had disappeared in the time of Strabo.