Coracae

{{Short description|Town and polis in ancient Thessaly}} '''Coracae''' or '''Korakai''' ({{langx|grc|Κορακαί}})<ref>{{cite book|author=Henri Estienne|title=Thesaurus Graecae Linguae|year=1841|volume=4|page=1822|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A8RJAAAAcAAJ&q=coracae&pg=PA1821|accessdate=August 31, 2018}}</ref> was a town and polis (city-state) on the Pagasetic Gulf in Magnesia in ancient Thessaly.<ref name=Poleis>{{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|url= https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans |url-access= limited |year= 2004|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn= 0-19-814099-1|chapter= Thessaly and Adjacent Regions|pages= [https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans/page/n735 719]–720}}</ref> It is mentioned in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax as between Methone and Spalauthra.<ref>Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, 65.</ref> Earlier writers tried to equate the town with Korope, but that has not been generally accepted.<ref>{{Cite Pauly|XI,2|1370|1371|Κορακαί|Friedrich Stählin|RE:Κορακαί}}</ref>

Coracae is noted in two inscriptions from Delphi of the fourth century BCE. It has been suggested that the town's location could have been on a hill called Nevestiki, near the current village of Lekonas, where remains of a fortification have been found, but that location has been suggested by others as the site of Methone.<ref name="Poleis"/><ref>{{Barrington Atlas|map=55|notes=no}}</ref>

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Category:Populated places in ancient Thessaly Category:Lost ancient cities and towns Category:Ancient Magnesia Category:Cities in ancient Greece Category:Thessalian city-states