Akanthos - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Akanthos - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Akanthos (; ) was an ancient Greek city on the Athos peninsula, on the narrow neck of land between the sacred mountain and the mainland, to the northwest of the Xerxes Canal. It was founded in the 7th century BCE as a colony of Andros, itself a colony of Chalcis in Euboea. Chalcidice was multi-cultural. The archaeology of the region suggests that some Hellenes were already there. The site is on the north-east side of Akti, on the most eastern peninsula of Chalcidice.Strabo and Ptolemy erroneously place Akanthos on the Singitic Gulf, but there can be no doubt that the town was on the Strymonian Gulf, as is stated by Herodotus and other authorities. The error may have perhaps arisen from the territory of Akanthos having stretched as far as the Singitic Gulf (Smith). Read more on Wikipedia
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