# Sollium

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Ancient Greek town in Acarnania

"Sollion" redirects here. For the place in Phocis, Greece, see [Kallion (Phocis)](/source/Kallion_(Phocis)).

**Sollium** or **Sollion** ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek_language): Σόλλιον), was a town on the coast of [ancient Acarnania](/source/Ancient_Acarnania), on the [Ionian Sea](/source/Ionian_Sea). It was in the neighbourhood of [Palaerus](/source/Palaerus), which lay between [Leucas](/source/Lefkada) and [Alyzia](/source/Alyzia). [William Martin Leake](/source/William_Martin_Leake), however, placed it south of Alyzia, at Stravolimióna (i.e., Port Stravo). Sollium was a [Corinthian](/source/Ancient_Corinth) colony, and as such was taken by the [Athenians](/source/Athenians) in the first year of the [Peloponnesian War](/source/Peloponnesian_War) (431 BCE). The Athenians gave both the place and its territory to [Palaerus](/source/Palaerus). It is again mentioned in 426 BCE, as the place at which [Demosthenes](/source/Demosthenes_(general)) landed when he resolved to invade [Aetolia](/source/Aetolia).[1]

Its site is located near the modern [Pogonia](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pogonia,_Greece&action=edit&redlink=1).[2]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Thucydides](/source/Thucydides), 2.30, 3.95, 5.30; [Steph. B.](/source/Stephanus_of_Byzantium) *s.v.*; Leake, *Northern Greece*, vol. iv. p. 18, *et seq.*

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Lund University](/source/Lund_University). [*Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire*](https://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/places/46213.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). "Sollium". *[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography](/source/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Geography)*. London: John Murray.

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