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Pheca

39°31′25″N 21°37′47″E / 39.52371°N 21.629739°E / 39.52371; 21.629739

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

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  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. Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.
  4. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.