Sollium
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.795, 20.835
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient Greek town in Acarnania
History
Sollium or Sollion, was a town on the coast of ancient Acarnania, on the Ionian Sea. It was in the neighbourhood of Palaerus, which lay between Leucas and Alyzia. William Martin Leake, however, placed it south of Alyzia, at Stravolimióna. Sollium was a Corinthian colony, and as such was taken by the Athenians in the first year of the Peloponnesian War. The Athenians gave both the place and its territory to Palaerus. It is again mentioned in 426 BCE, as the place at which Demosthenes landed when he resolved to invade Aetolia.