# Singus

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**Singus** or **Singos** (Ancient Greek: Σίγγος) was a town of [Sithonia](/source/Sithonia) in the [Chalcidice](/source/Chalcidice) in [ancient Macedonia](/source/Ancient_Macedonia), upon the gulf to which it gave its name, the [Singitic Gulf](/source/Singitic_Gulf) (Σιγγιτικὸς κόλπος).[1][2]

It is cited by [Herodotus](/source/Herodotus) as one of the cities, along with [Assa](/source/Assa_(Chalcidice)), [Pilorus](/source/Pilorus) and [Sarta](/source/Sarta_(Chalcidice)), located near [Mount Athos](/source/Mount_Athos), which [Xerxes](/source/Xerxes_I) had ordered to [open a channel](/source/Xerxes_Canal) through which his fleet passed. From these cities he recruited troops, in his [expedition of the year 480 BCE against Greece](/source/Second_Persian_invasion_of_Greece).[3]

It belonged to the [Delian League](/source/Delian_League) since it appears in the tribute registry of [Athens](/source/Ancient_Athens) from 454/3 to 433/2 BCE.[4] In the [Peace of Nicias](/source/Peace_of_Nicias) of 421 BCE it was stipulated that the inhabitants of [Mecyberna](/source/Mecyberna), [Sane](/source/Sane_(Acte)) and Singus would live in their own cities under the same conditions as the [Olyntihans](/source/Olynthus) and [Acanthians](/source/Acanthus_(Greece)), which has been interpreted by some historians as Singus was one of the cities that had undergone [synoecism](/source/Synoecism) with [Olynthus](/source/Olynthus) in the revolt that took place in the year 432 BCE, and that in the peace treaty it was re-established that it should be independent from Olynthus.[5][4] [Strabo](/source/Strabo) writes that Singus was in ruins in his time.[2]

Its site is 1 mile (1.6 km) east of modern [Agios Nikolaos](/source/Agios_Nikolaos,_Chalkidiki).[6][7]

## References

1. Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). ["Thrace from Axios to Strymon"](https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans). *An inventory of archaic and classical poleis*. New York: [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press). p. [841](https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans/page/n857). ISBN 0-19-814099-1.

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