Coronta

{{for|the moth genus|Melipotis}} [[File:Etolia Acarnania.png|thumb|400px|Map of ancient Acarnania and Aetolia showing Coronta, spelt "Corontas".]] '''Coronta''' ({{langx|grc|τὰ Κόροντα or Κόρονται}}),<ref>[[Stephanus of Byzantium]], ''Ethnica'', ''s.v.''</ref> a small town in the interior of [[Acarnania]], probably lying between [[Metropolis (Acarnania)|Metropolis]] and [[Old Oenia]]. It is cited by [[Thucydides]] in the context of the [[Peloponnesian War]] where it is said that, after the [[Battle of Naupactus]] in 429 BCE, the [[Athenians]] made an expedition through Acarnania in which they restored the leader of Corontas, and expelled from the city some inhabitants who were contrary to their interests.<ref>[[Thucydides]], II, 102.</ref>

It was located midway between [[Astakos]] and [[Stratos, Greece|Stratos]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Tucídides, Historia de la Guerra del Peloponeso|language=Spanish|page=234, note|author=Francisco Romero Cruz|place=Madrid|publisher=Cátedra|year=2005|isbn=84-376-0768-X}}</ref> At a mile (1.6 km) from Pródhromo (Πρόδρομος), [[William Martin Leake]] discovered on an insulated hill the ruins of Hellenic walls, which are probably the remains of Coronta.<ref>Leake, ''Northern Greece'', vol. iii. p. 514.</ref>

Its site is located near the modern [[Khrysovitsa]].<ref>{{Barrington Atlas|page=54}}</ref><ref>{{Cite DARE|31589}}</ref>

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