Phytia

{{distinguish|Phyteia}} [[Image:Map of ancient Epirus and environs (English).svg|right|thumb|200px|Epirus in antiquity]] '''Phytia''' ({{langx|grc|Φυτία}}),<ref name=Thucydides>{{Cite Thucydides|3.106}}</ref> or '''Phoeteiae''' or '''Phoiteiai''' (Φοιτεῖαι),<ref name=Polybius>{{Cite Polybius|4.63}}</ref> or '''Phoetiae''' or '''Phoitiai''' (Φοιτίαι),<ref>{{Cite Stephanus|''s.v.''}}</ref> was a town in the interior of [[ancient Acarnania]], situated on a height west of [[Stratus (Acarnania)|Stratus]], and strongly fortified. It lay on the road from Stratus to [[Medeon (Acarnania)|Medeon]] and [[Limnaea (Acarnania)|Limnaea]]. After the time of [[Alexander the Great]] it fell into the hands of the [[Aetolians]], together with the other towns in the west of Acarnania. It was taken by [[Philip V of Macedon]] in his expedition against Aetolia in 219 BCE; but the Aetolians, doubtless, obtained possession of it again, either before or after the conquest of Philip by the [[ancient Rome|Romans]].<ref name=Thucydides/><ref name=Polybius/> It is mentioned as one of the towns of Acarnania in a Greek inscription found at the site of [[Actium]], the date of which is probably prior to the time of [[Augustus]]. In this inscription the ethnic form Φοιτιάν occurs.<ref>[[August Böckh]], ''Corpus Inscript.'', No. 1793.</ref>

Its site is located near modern Ag. Georgios, formerly Porta.<ref>{{Barrington Atlas|page=54}}</ref><ref>{{Cite DARE|31628}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}} {{DGRG|title=Phytia}}

==See also== *[[List of cities in ancient Epirus]]

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