Colonae or Kolonai () was a
deme
In Ancient Greece, a deme or ( grc, δῆμος, plural: demoi, δημοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Athens and other city-states. Demes as simple subdivisions of land in the countryside seem to have existed in the 6th century BC and ear ...
in
ancient Attica, originally of the ''
phyle
''Phyle'' ( gr, φυλή, phulē, "tribe, clan"; pl. ''phylai'', φυλαί; derived from ancient Greek φύεσθαι "to descend, to originate") is an ancient Greek term for tribe or clan. Members of the same ''phyle'' were known as ''symphylet ...
'' of
Antiochis The name Antiochis ( grc, Ἀντιoχίς) is the female name of Antiochus.
Women Seleucid Princesses & Hellenistic Queen Consorts
*Antiochis, a daughter of Achaeus and granddaughter of Seleucus I Nicator. She married Attalus and became the moth ...
, but later in the ''phylae'' of
Antigonis (307/6 – 224/3 BCE) and
Ptolemais (after 224/3 BCE).
Its site is tentatively located near modern
Varnava Tower.
References
Populated places in ancient Attica
Former populated places in Greece
Demoi
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