Olizon

39°08′07″N 23°13′02″E

Map showing ancient Thessaly. Olizon is shown to the lower right opposite Euboea (shown in pink).

Olizon (Ancient Greek: Ὀλιζών) was an ancient Greek town and polis (city-state) of Magnesia located in the region of Thessaly.^[1][2][3][4] Olizon is mentioned by Homer, who gives it the epithet of "rugged"; and in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad, Olizon formed part of the territories of Philoctetes.^[5]

It is also mentioned in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax as a city in Magnesia, together with Iolcus, Spalauthra, Methone and Coracae.^[6] In Strabo's time, it formed part of the dependent territories of Demetrias on a section of the coast where Thaumacia and Meliboea also stood.^[7] Plutarch wrote that it was located opposite Artemisium in Euboea.^[8]

Olizon is located at the Palaiokastro (old fort) at Agios Andreas.^[9][10]