Galepsus or Galepsos (Ancient Greek: Γαληψός) was a town on the north coast of the peninsula of Sithonia, Chalcidice, ancient Macedonia.[1] William Martin Leake states that Galepsus was the same place afterwards called Physcella,[2][3] a distinction which was required, as there was another Galepsus at no great distance.[4]

The site of Galepsus is about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the modern Nikite.[5][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 7.122.
  2. ↑ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.10.
  3. ↑ Pomponius Mela. De situ orbis. Vol. 2.3.1.
  4. ↑ William Martin Leake, Trav. in North. Greece, vol. iii. p. 155.
  5. ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 51, and directory notes accompanying.
  6. ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Galepsus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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