Scione
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.3|Coinage of Skione. Head of Protesilaos, wearing Attic helmet / Stern of galley left within incuse square. Circa 480–470 BC thumb|upright=1.3|Coinage of Skione. Male head right, wearing tainia / Helmet right within incuse square. Circa 470–454 BC Scione or Skione () was an ancient Greek city in Pallene, the westernmost headland of Chalcidice, on the southern coast east of the modern town of Nea Skioni.
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- Σκιώνη
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thumb|upright=1.3|Coinage of Skione. Head of Protesilaos, wearing Attic helmet / Stern of galley left within incuse square. Circa 480–470 BC thumb|upright=1.3|Coinage of Skione. Male head right, wearing tainia / Helmet right within incuse square. Circa 470–454 BC Scione or Skione () was an ancient Greek city in Pallene, the westernmost headland of Chalcidice, on the southern coast east of the modern town of Nea Skioni.
Scione was founded by settlers from Achaea; the Scionaeans claimed their ancestors settled the place when their ships were blown there by the storm that caught the Achaeans on their way back from Troy. It "was situated on one summit of a two-crested hill and on the slopes toward the sea... The hill with the fortifications and the pottery fragments constituted the acropolis of ancient Scione and the hill beyond was that on which the defenders encamped 'before the city.'"
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scione” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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