Sperchiae

38°55′22″N 22°01′58″E Sperchiae or Sperchiai (Ancient Greek: Σπέρχεια) or Spercheiae or Spercheiai (Σπερχείαι)^[1] was a fortress in Ainis in ancient Thessaly, which, according to the description of Livy, would seem to have been situated at no great distance from the sources of the Spercheius.^[2] Ptolemy mentions a place Spercheia between Echinus and Thebes in Phthiotis;^[3] and Pliny the Elder places Sperchios in Doris.^[4] William Smith concludes it probable that these three names indicate the same place.^[5] Livy relates that the place was destroyed by the Aetolians in 198 BCE.^[2]

Sperchiae's site is at a place called Kastrorakhi.^[6][7]