Cape Megalo Embolo ( el, Μεγάλο έμβολο, 'Great Point') or Karaburnu (Turkish 'Black Cape'), probably the ancient Aeneium or Aineion ( grc, Αἰνειῶν), is a cape southwest of

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...

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, located next to the village of

Angelochori Angelochori ( el, Αγγελοχώρι) is a village in the municipal unit of Michaniona, in the Thessaloniki regional unit, Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is sit ...

. There is a lighthouse. The line from Megalo Embolo to the mouth of the Vardar/Axios is sometimes considered to define the entrance of the

Thermaic Gulf The Thermaic Gulf (), also called the Gulf of Salonika and the Macedonian Gulf, is a gulf constituting the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. The city of Thessaloniki is at its northeastern tip, and it is bounded by Pieria Imathia and Larissa ...

.Malamut Elisabeth, Grélois Jean-Pierre, "Le port de Thessalonique (IVe-XVIe siècles)", ''Actes des congrès de la Société des historiens médiévistes de l'enseignement supérieur public'' 35:131-147, La Rochelle, 2004. "Ports maritimes et ports fluviaux au Moyen Age."
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Halkidiki 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 con ...

peninsula, although administratively it belongs to the regional unit of Thessaloniki. It appears to correspond to the promontory of Aeneium described in the ''Periodos to Nicomedes'' of

Pseudo-Scymnus Pseudo-Scymnus is the name given by Augustus Meineke to the unknown author of a work on geography written in Classical Greek, the ''Periodos to Nicomedes''. It is an account of the world (''periegesis'') in 'comic' iambic trimeters which is dedicat ...

, and was probably the site of the ancient city of Aenea. The smaller cape

Karabournaki Mikro Emvolo (), also called Karabournaki (Καραμπουρνάκι), is the cape of Kalamaria in northeastern Thessaloniki and a district of the local municipality. Its name comes from ''kara burun'' in Turkish language, Turkish, meaning 'bla ...

, Mikro Karabournou, or Mikro Emvolo is found to its northeast.

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