Galepsus or Galepsos ( grc, Γαληψός) was a town on the north coast of the peninsula of
Sithonia
Sithonia ( el, Σιθωνία), also known as Longos, is a peninsula of Chalkidiki, which itself is located on a larger peninsula within Greece. The Kassandra Peninsula lies to the west of Sithonia and the Mount Athos peninsula to the east. Sithon ...
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Chalcidice
Chalkidiki (; el, Χαλκιδική , also spelled Halkidiki, is a peninsula and regional unit of Greece, part of the region of Central Macedonia, in the geographic region of Macedonia in Northern Greece. The autonomous Mount Athos region c ...
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ancient Macedonia
Macedonia (; grc-gre, Μακεδονία), also called Macedon (), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. The kingdom was founded and initially ruled by ...
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William Martin Leake
William Martin Leake (14 January 17776 January 1860) was an English military man, topographer, diplomat, antiquarian, writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He served in the British military, spending much of his career in the
Mediterrane ...
states that Galepsus was the same place afterwards called Physcella, a distinction which was required, as there was
another Galepsus at no great distance.
The site of Galepsus is about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the modern
Nikite.
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Galepsus (Thrace)
Galepsus or Galepsos ( grc, Γαλιψός) was a Greek city located in the region of Edonis in ancient Thrace and later in Macedon.Benjamin H. Isaac, ''The Greek Settlements in Thrace Until the Macedonian Conquest'', p.63 It was located east of ...
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Populated places in ancient Macedonia
Former populated places in Greece
Geography of ancient Chalcidice
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