Cnemides

{{for|the cape|Cape Cnemides}} {{redirect|Knemides|the ancient Greek military equipment|Knemides (armor)}} '''Cnemides''' or '''Knemides''' ({{langx|grc|Κνημῖδες}}), also '''Cnemis''' or '''Knemis''' (Κνῆμις),<ref name=Periplus>''Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax'', p. 23; {{cite Pliny|4.7.12}}</ref> is the name of a fortress, and probably of a town, in ancient Phocis. Strabo places Cnemides on Cape Cnemides opposite the islands called Lichades and the Euboean promontory Cenaeum, distant 20 stadia from Thronium and from Daphnus.<ref>{{Cite Strabo|9.4.4.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Ptolemy|3.15.10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Mela|2.3.67}}</ref> The Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, successively describing towns along the Phocian coast, places Cnemides after Thronium and before Elateia and Panopeus.<ref name=Periplus/><ref name=Poleis>{{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|year= 2004|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn= 0-19-814099-1|chapter= Western Lokris |page= 668}}</ref>

The site of Cnemides is near the modern Gouvali.<ref>{{Barrington Atlas|page=55}}</ref><ref>{{Cite DARE|34356}}</ref>

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Category:Populated places in ancient Phocis Category:Populated places in Opuntian Locris Category:Former populated places in Greece