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38°38′02″N 22°31′37″E Erochus or Erochos (Ancient Greek: Έρωχος) was a town of ancient Phocis that was destroyed in the Greco-Persian Wars by the army of Xerxes I in 480 BCE.[1]

The city was again destroyed in the Third Sacred War, and was not rebuilt; it was located between Charadra and Tithronium, in the western part of the mount Cithaeron.[2] Its site is located near Kato Souvala.[3][4]

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