Stena or Stenas was a station in

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 ...

, on the road from

Tauriana Tauriana or Taureana (Taurianum in Latin, ''Ταυρανία'' in Greek) is an ancient city of the Bruttii which was located in the southern part of Calabria, in present Taurianova, Reggio Calabria province. History Its ruins were located in th ...

(Doïrân) to

Stobi Stobi or Stoboi ( grc, Στόβοι, Stóboi; la, Stobi; mk, Стоби, Stobi), was an ancient town of Paeonia, later conquered by Macedon, and finally turned into the capital of the Roman province of Macedonia Salutaris. It is located near ...

, where the river Axius is closely bordered by perpendicular rocks, which in one place have been excavated for the road. The site of Stena is tentatively located near modern Gradec, in

North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Socialist Feder ...

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Populated places in ancient Macedonia Former populated places in the Balkans {{NorthMacedonia-geo-stub