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Fortress in Ainis, ancient Thessaly From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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]

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