Scithae
Ancient city
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.397, 23.056
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Scithae or Skithai was a town of Chalcidice in ancient Macedonia.
History
Scithae or Skithai was a town of Chalcidice in ancient Macedonia. It is cited in a fragment of Theopompus collected by Stephanus of Byzantium, which locates it in Thrace, in the vicinity of Potidaea. The city also appears on coins; Scithaean silver coins dated around the year 500 BCE have been preserved.