Phyllus

{{short description|City in ancient Greece}} {{Infobox ancient site | name = Phyllos | native_name = Φύλλος | alternate_name = | image = Magoula_Paliambela.jpg | alt = | caption = The tell (''magoula'') of Paliambela, the site of ancient Phyllos | map_type = Greece | map_alt = | coordinates = {{Coord|39.41174745121957|22.18454394926858|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GR|display=inline,title}} | location = [[Fyllo]], [[Palamas]] | region = [[Karditsa (regional unit)]], [[Greece]] | type = Ancient city | part_of = | length = | width = | area = | height = | builder = | material = | built = [[Bronze Age Greece|Mycenaean period]] | abandoned = [[Hellenistic Greece|Hellenistic period]] | epochs = | cultures = [[Ancient Greece]] | dependency_of = | occupants = | event = | excavations = | archaeologists = [[Jean-Claude Decourt]] | condition = | ownership = | management = | public_access = | website = | notes = }}

'''Phyllus''' or '''Phylos''' ({{langx|grc|Φύλλος}}) was a city near Mount Phylleium in the district of [[Thessaliotis]], in [[ancient Thessaly]].<ref name=Strabo>{{Cite Strabo|9.5.14}}</ref> [[Strabo]] says the city was noted for a temple of [[Apollo|Apollo Phylleius]].<ref name=Strabo/> [[Statius]] calls this city '''Phylli'''.<ref>Stat. ''Theb.'' 4.45.</ref> The city is also cited by [[Stephanus of Byzantium]].<ref>{{Cite Stephanus|''s.v.''}}</ref>

The site of Phyllus is at Magoula Paliambela, a large [[Tell (archaeology)|tell]] in the modern municipal unit of [[Fyllo]].<ref>{{Barrington Atlas|page=55}}</ref><ref>{{Cite DARE|29444}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://atlasthessalias.culture.gr/-------13.html|title=Φύλλος|last=Nikolaou|first=Elsa|website=Αρχαιολογικός Άτλας Θεσσαλίας|publisher=The Institute for Thessalian Archaeological Studies|access-date=2021-01-08}}</ref>

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[[Category:Former populated places in Greece]] [[Category:Populated places in ancient Thessaly]] [[Category:Thessaliotis]]