Orobiae or Orobiai ( grc, Ὀρόβιαι) was a town on the western coast of

ancient Euboea Evia (, ; el, wikt:Εύβοια, Εύβοια ; grc, wikt:Εὔβοια, Εὔβοια ) or Euboia (, ) is the second-largest List of islands of Greece, Greek island in area and population, after Crete. It is separated from Boeotia in mainlan ...

, between

Aedepsus Aedepsus or Aidepsos ( grc, Αἴδηψος) was a town upon the northwestern coast of ancient Euboea, 160 stadia from Cynus on the opposite coast of the Opuntian Locris. It contained warm baths sacred to Heracles, which were used by the Roman dict ...

and Aegae, which possessed an

oracle An oracle is a person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities. As such, it is a form of divination. Description The word '' ...

of Apollo Selinuntius. The town was partly destroyed by an earthquake and an inundation of the sea in the

426 BC Malian Gulf tsunami The 426 BC Malian Gulf tsunami devastated the coasts of the Malian and Euboean Gulfs, Greece, in the summer of 426 BC. Thucydides inquired into its causes, and concluded that the tsunami must have been caused by an earthquake.Thucydides"A Histo ...

. This town seems to be the one mentioned by

Stephanus of Byzantium Stephanus or Stephan of Byzantium ( la, Stephanus Byzantinus; grc-gre, Στέφανος Βυζάντιος, ''Stéphanos Byzántios''; centuryAD), was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled ''Ethni ...

under the name of Orope (Ὀρόπη), who describes it as "a city of Euboea, having a very renowned temple of Apollo." Its site is located near the modern village of Rovies.

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