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For the ancient town of the Chalcidice peninsula, see Poseidium (Chalcidice). For the ancient town on the island of Karpathos, see Poseidium (Karpathos).
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Poseidium or Poseidion (Ancient Greek: Ποσείδιον) was a town on the northeast coast of ancient Euboea. It belonged to the Delian League since it appears in the taxation registry of Athens of the year 425/4 BCE, where it had to pay a phoros of 100 drachmae. In the 2nd century BCE, Poseidium appears in another inscription where it had become a deme of Oreus.

Its site is located near the Palaiokastro ("old fort/castle") of Vasilika.

References

  1. "Inscriptiones Graecae". Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  2. "IG XII,9 1189. 20,28,39". Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  3. Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Euboia". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 660. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  4. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
  5. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

38°58′21″N 23°22′00″E / 38.972412°N 23.366608°E / 38.972412; 23.366608


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