{{Short description|Former town in ancient Greece}} {{coord|39.5864|N|22.9251|E|format=dms|display=title|source:http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/29370.html}} thumb|350px|Map showing ancient Thessaly. Casthanaea is shown on the coast of Magnesia. '''Casthanaea''' or '''Casthanea''' or '''Kasthanaia''' or '''Kasthaneia''' ({{langx|el|Κασθαναία}})<ref>{{cite Strabo|Strab. ix. pp.438, 443.}}</ref> or '''Castanea''' or '''Kastanaia''' (Κασταναία)<ref>{{Cite Stephanus|''s.v.''}}</ref> was a town and polis (city-state)<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|page= [https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans/page/n735 719]}}</ref> of Ancient Magnesia, at the foot of Mount Pelium, with a temple of Aphrodite Casthanitis. It is mentioned by Herodotus in his account of the terrible storm which the fleet of Xerxes I experienced off this part of the coast.<ref>{{Cite Herodotus|7.183, 184, 188.}}</ref> and by Pliny.<ref>{{Cite Pliny|4.16.9.}}</ref> It was from this town that the chestnut tree, which still abounds on the eastern side of Mt. Pelium, derived its name in Greek and the modern languages of Europe.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_TGIaAAAAYAAJ "Essai monographique sur le châtaignier", Édouard Lamy, 1860 p.4].</ref> Its location is below the modern village of Keramidi.<ref>{{Barrington Atlas|page=55}}</ref><ref>{{Cite DARE|29372}}</ref>
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Category:Former populated places in Greece Category:Ancient Magnesia Category:Populated places in ancient Thessaly Category:Cities in ancient Greece Category:Thessalian city-states
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