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Buchetium or Bouchetion ( grc, Βουχέτιον), or Buchaetium or Bouchaition (Βουχαίτιον), or Buchetum or Boucheton (Βουχετόν), or Bucheta or Boucheta (Βούχετα), was a city of the
Cassopaei The Cassopaei ( gr, Κασσωπαῖοι) were an ancient Greek tribe living in ancient Epirus and occupying the coast between Thesprotia and the Ambracian Gulf, and bordering upon Nicopolis; their chief town was Cassope (Κασσώπη). The ''Per ...
in ancient Thesprotia, a little above the sea. According to the legend it got its name because Themis went there, mounted on an ox, during the flood of
Deukalion In Greek mythology, Deucalion (; grc-gre, Δευκαλίων) was the son of Prometheus; ancient sources name his mother as Clymene, Hesione, or Pronoia.A scholium to ''Odyssey'' 10.2 (='' Catalogue'' fr. 4) reports that Hesiod called Deucalion ...
. Its site was occupied by the medieval settlement of
Rogoi Rogoi ( el, Ρωγοί) is a Byzantine castle in Nea Kerasounta near Preveza, in western Greece. It is located on the site of the ancient city of Bouchetion (Βουχέτιον), which was abandoned in the late 1st century BC. Re-occupied in th ...
, near modern Nea Kerasounta.


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Populated places in ancient Epirus Former populated places in Greece Cities in ancient Epirus Elean colonies {{AncientEpirus-geo-stub