Olophyxus
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.330, 24.191
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Olophyxus or Olophyxos was a town on the peninsula of Acte or Akte (Ακτή), the easternmost of the three peninsulas forming the ancient Chalcidice.
History
Olophyxus or Olophyxos was a town on the peninsula of Acte or Akte (Ακτή), the easternmost of the three peninsulas forming the ancient Chalcidice. Thucydides says that among the cities of Acte, Sane was colony of Andros, while Thyssus, Cleonae, Acrothoum, Olophyxus and Dium had a heterogeneous population of bilingual barbarians formed by a few Chalcidians and, the rest, Pelasgians, Bisaltians, Crestonians and Edoni. Strabo says that its primitive populace was composed of Pelasgians from Lemnos. Pseudo Scylax writes that it was a Greek city.