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Callium or Kallion (Ancient Greek: Κάλλιον),[1] or Callipolis or Kallipolis (Καλλίπολις),[2] was the chief town of the Callienses (οἱ Καλλιῆς),[3] situated on the eastern confines of ancient Aetolia, on one of the heights of Mount Oeta, and on the road from the valley of the Spercheus to Aetolia. It was by this road that the Gauls marched into Aetolia in 279 BCE, when they surprised and destroyed Callium, and committed the most horrible atrocities on the inhabitants.[4] Callium also lay on the road from Pyra (the summit of Oeta, where Heracles was supposed to have burnt himself) to Naupactus, and it was divided by Mount Corax from lower Aetolia.[5]
Its site is located near the modern Veloukhovos,[6][7] at the site called "Steno", where the castle of Velouhovo was later built.
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- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s. v. Κόραξ.
- ^ Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 3.96.
- ^ Pausanias (1918). "22.1". Description of Greece. Vol. 10. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library. et seq.
- ^ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 30.31.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.