Pheca

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Map showing ancient Thessaly. Phaeca is shown to the centre left near Gomphi.

Pheca or Phaika or Phaeca (Ancient Greek: Φαίκα) or Phecadum was a fortress and town lying between the pass of Portes and Gomphi in ancient Thessaly.[1] In the war against Philip V of Macedon, Amynander of Athamania, king of the Athamanes, in co-operation with the Roman consul Titus Quinctius Flamininus, having descended from the pass of Portes, first took Pheca and then Gomphi itself, 198 BCE.[2]

The site of Pheca is at modern Varybobi.[3][4]

References
  1. Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 31.41, 32.14.
  2. Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 32.14.
  3. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.
  4. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.


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