Smila (Macedonia)

Smila (Ancient Greek: Σμίλα), also Smilla (Σμίλλα), was an ancient Greek polis (city-state) in the Chalcidice, ancient Macedonia. It is cited by Herodotus as one of the cities - together with Lipaxus, Combreia, Lisaea, Gigonus, Campsa, Aeneia - located in the vicinity of the Thermaic Gulf, in a region called Crusis near the peninsula of Pallene where Xerxes recruited troops in his expedition of the year 480 BCE against Greece.[1] Subsequently the city belonged to the Delian League since it appears on a tribute list to Athens in 434/3 BCE.[2]

"Smilla" redirects here. For the fictional character, see Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow. For the kickboxer, see Smilla Sundell.

Its site is unlocated.[3]

References
  1. Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 7.123.
  2. Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thrace from Axios to Strymon". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 843. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  3. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 50, and directory notes accompanying.


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