Eilesium
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.302, 23.504
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city in Boeotia, Greece
History
Eilesium or Eilesion was a town of ancient Boeotia. It is mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad. Strabo says that its name indicates a marshy position.