Sollium

{{Short description|Ancient Greek town in Acarnania}} {{redirect|Sollion|the place in Phocis, Greece|Kallion (Phocis)}} '''Sollium''' or '''Sollion''' ({{langx|grc|Σόλλιον}}), was a town on the coast of [[ancient Acarnania]], on the [[Ionian Sea]]. It was in the neighbourhood of [[Palaerus]], which lay between [[Lefkada|Leucas]] and [[Alyzia]]. [[William Martin Leake]], however, placed it south of Alyzia, at Stravolimióna (i.e., Port Stravo). Sollium was a [[Ancient Corinth|Corinthian]] colony, and as such was taken by the [[Athenians]] in the first year of the [[Peloponnesian War]] (431 BCE). The Athenians gave both the place and its territory to [[Palaerus]]. It is again mentioned in 426 BCE, as the place at which [[Demosthenes (general)|Demosthenes]] landed when he resolved to invade [[Aetolia]].<ref>[[Thucydides]], 2.30, 3.95, 5.30; [[Stephanus of Byzantium|Steph. B.]] ''s.v.''; Leake, ''Northern Greece'', vol. iv. p. 18, ''et seq.''</ref>

Its site is located near the modern [[Pogonia, Greece|Pogonia]].<ref>{{Cite DARE|46213}}</ref>

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