Galepsus (Chalcidice)

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]

References edit

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