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Not to be confused with [Phyteia](/source/Phyteia).

Epirus in antiquity

**Phytia** ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek_language): Φυτία),[1] or **Phoeteiae** or **Phoiteiai** (Φοιτεῖαι),[2] or **Phoetiae** or **Phoitiai** (Φοιτίαι),[3] was a town in the interior of [ancient Acarnania](/source/Ancient_Acarnania), situated on a height west of [Stratus](/source/Stratus_(Acarnania)), and strongly fortified. It lay on the road from Stratus to [Medeon](/source/Medeon_(Acarnania)) and [Limnaea](/source/Limnaea_(Acarnania)). After the time of [Alexander the Great](/source/Alexander_the_Great) it fell into the hands of the [Aetolians](/source/Aetolians), together with the other towns in the west of Acarnania. It was taken by [Philip V of Macedon](/source/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 [Romans](/source/Ancient_Rome).[1][2] It is mentioned as one of the towns of Acarnania in a Greek inscription found at the site of [Actium](/source/Actium), the date of which is probably prior to the time of [Augustus](/source/Augustus). In this inscription the ethnic form Φοιτιάν occurs.[4]

Its site is located near modern Ag. Georgios, formerly Porta.[5][6]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Thucydides_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Thucydides_1-1) [Thucydides](/source/Thucydides). *[History of the Peloponnesian War](/source/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War)*. Vol. 3.106.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Polybius_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Polybius_2-1) [Polybius](/source/Polybius). *[The Histories](/source/The_Histories_(Polybius))*. Vol. 4.63.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Stephanus of Byzantium](/source/Stephanus_of_Byzantium). Ethnica. Vol. *s.v*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [August Böckh](/source/August_B%C3%B6ckh), *Corpus Inscript.*, No. 1793.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [Talbert, Richard](/source/Richard_Talbert), ed. (2000). [*Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World*](/source/Barrington_Atlas_of_the_Greek_and_Roman_World). Princeton University Press. p. 54. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-691-03169-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-691-03169-9), with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Lund University](/source/Lund_University). [*Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire*](https://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/places/31628.html).

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): [Smith, William](/source/William_Smith_(lexicographer)), ed. (1854–1857). "Phytia". *[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography](/source/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Geography)*. London: John Murray.

## See also

- [List of cities in ancient Epirus](/source/List_of_cities_in_ancient_Epirus)

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