Stratonicea (Chalcidice)

Stratonicea (also Stratonikeia, Stratoniki, Stratonice) was an ancient city of Hellenistic foundation on the west coast of the Akte peninsula (now Mount Athos), a few km northwest of Cleonae; its site is at the modern village of Stratoni, Chalkidiki, Greece. Approximately 1 km distant are the ruins of Stageira, the birthplace of Aristotle.

Sources

• Hazlitt's Classical Gazetteer

• Blue Guide, Greece (ISBN 0-393-30372-1), p. 599