Skioni

SKIONI Chalkidike, Greece.

A city near the end of the Pallene peninsula E of Mende. The importance of the town, which figured in the Peloponnesian War, is indicated by the high assessment assigned to it in the Athenian tribute lists. The mound of ruins marking the site lies between Cape Paliuri and Cape Kassandra.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hdt. 7.123, 8.128; Thuc. 4.130; Strab. 7,330, fr. 27; E. Oberhummer in RE 3A1(1927) 529.

M. H. MC ALLISTER