# Erochus

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**Erochus** or **Erochos** (Ancient Greek: Έρωχος) was a town of [ancient Phocis](/source/Ancient_Phocis) that was destroyed in the [Greco-Persian Wars](/source/Greco-Persian_Wars) by the army of [Xerxes I](/source/Xerxes_I) in 480 BCE.[1]

The city was again destroyed in the [Third Sacred War](/source/Third_Sacred_War), and was not rebuilt; it was located between [Charadra](/source/Charadra_(Phocis)) and [Tithronium](/source/Tithronium), in the western part of the mount [Cithaeron](/source/Cithaeron).[2] Its site is located near [Kato Souvala](/source/Kato_Souvala).[3][4]

## References

1. María Cruz Herrero Ingelmo (2008). *Pausanias,*Descripción de Grecia'**(in Spanish). Vol. 3, libros VII-X. Madrid: Gredos. p. 354 & accompanying note. ISBN 978-84-249-1650-3.**

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