Poseidium or Poseidion (Ancient Greek: Ποσείδιον) was a town on the northeast coast of ancient Euboea. It belonged to the Delian League since it appears in the taxation registry of Athens of the year 425/4 BCE, where it had to pay a phoros of 100 drachmae.[1] In the 2nd century BCE, Poseidium appears in another inscription where it had become a deme of Oreus.[2][3]

Its site is located near the Palaiokastro ("old fort/castle") of Vasilika.[4][5]

References

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  1. ^ "Inscriptiones Graecae". Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  2. ^ "IG XII,9 1189. 20,28,39". Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  3. ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Euboia". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 660. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  4. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
  5. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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