Olynthus
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- 317 BC
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.293, 23.343
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city in Chalkidiki, Greece
History
Olynthus is an ancient city in present-day Chalcidice, Greece. It was built mostly on two flat-topped hills 30–40m in height, in a fertile plain at the head of the Gulf of Torone, near the neck of the peninsula of Pallene, about 2.5 kilometers from the sea, and about 60 stadia from Poteidaea.