Antigonia Psaphara or Antigoneia Psaphara ( grc, Ἀντιγόνεια Ψαφαρά), or simply Antigonia, Antigonea, or Antigoneia (Ἀντιγόνεια) was a

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city in

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in the district

Crusis Crusis or Crousis (Latin: ''Crusaea'' or ''Crossaea'') was called a maritime district of North-West Chalcidice from Potidaea to the Thermaic Gulf. It was named after Crusis the son of Mygdon (son of Ares), Mygdon. The cities of Crusis were: Lipaxus ...

(Krousis) in Chalcidice, placed by

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between

Aeneia Aenea (; grc, Αἴνεια, ''Aineia'') was an ancient Greek city in northwesternmost Chalcidice, said to have been founded by Aeneas, and was situated, according to Livy, opposite Pydna, and 15 miles from Thessalonica. It appears to have stood ...

and Pallene. It is called Psaphara by

Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; grc-gre, Πτολεμαῖος, ; la, Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist, who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were of importance ...

probably in order to distinguish it from Antigonia in Paeonia. The site of Antigonia Psaphara is about 3 miles (5 km) north of Nea Kallikrateia.

References

External links

* Smith, William (editor); '' Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography''
"Antigoneia"

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, (1854)
Hazlitt, Classical Gazetteer, "Antigonia"
*https://web.archive.org/web/20110928155211/http://www.macedonia.se/en/Load/56/psaphara/ Hellenistic colonies in Chalcidice Antigonid colonies in Macedonia Former populated places in Greece Populated places in ancient Macedonia {{AncientMacedonia-geo-stub