For other Pallenes, see Pallene

Pallene

Pallene can refer to:* Pallene , one of the seven Alkyonides, daughters of the giant Alkyoneus in Greek mythology* Pallene , a small moon of Saturn, discovered in 2004*Pallini, a town east of Athens, Greece...

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Pallene is the ancient name of the westernmost of the three headlands of Chalcidice

Chalcidice

Chalkidiki, also Halkidiki, Chalcidice or Chalkidike , is a peninsula in northern Greece, and one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Central Macedonia. The autonomous Mount Athos region is part of the peninsula, but not of the regional unit...

, which run out into the Aegean Sea

Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea[p] is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus...

. Its modern name is Kassandra Peninsula (Χερσόνησος Κασσάνδρας). It is said to have anciently borne the name of Phlegra and to have witnessed the conflict between the gods and the earthborn Gigantes

Gigantes

In Greek mythology, the Giants were the children of Gaia, who was fertilized by the blood of Uranus, after Uranus was castrated by his son Cronus...

. The modern name of the peninsula is Kassandra

Kassandra

Kassandra can refer to:*Cassandra, in Greek mythology*114 Kassandra, an asteroid*Cassandra , a book written by the East German author Christa Wolf *Cassandreia, an ancient city and adjoining isthmus in Chalcidice, Greece...

, which, besides affording excellent winter pasture for cattle and sheep, also produces an abundance of grain of superior quality, as well as wool, honey, and wax, besides raising silkworms. In antiquity, Pallene was the site of numerous towns: Sane, Mende, Scione, Therambos, Aege, Neapolis

Neapolis, Chalcidice

Neapolis meaning "New City", was an ancient city on east coast of the isthmus the Pallene, Chalcidice, Greece between Aphytis and Aege. It is usually identified with the modern town of Polychrono, in Pallini municipality, Chalkidiki prefecture....

, Aphytis, which were either wholly or partly colonies from Eretria

Eretria

Erétria was a polis in Ancient Greece, located on the western coast of the island of Euboea, south of Chalcis, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow Euboean Gulf. Eretria was an important Greek polis in the 6th/5th century BC. However, it lost its importance already in antiquity...

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Strabo

Strabo

Strabo, also written Strabon was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher.-Life:Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in Pontus , a city which he said was situated the approximate equivalent of 75 km from the Black Sea...

  mentions the following five cities of Pallene in the 1st century BC (Cassandreia

Cassandreia

Cassandrea, Cassandreia, or Cassandria was once one of the most important cities in Ancient Macedonia founded by and named after Cassander in 316 BC located on the site of the earlier Ancient Greek city of Potidaea...

, Aphytis

Aphytis

Aphytis was an ancient Greek city in Pallene, the westernmost headland of Chalcidice. Around the middle of the 8th century BC colonists from Euboea arrived. The city became well known for its Temple of Dionysus, which appears to have been built in the second half of the 8th century BC...

, Mende, Scione

Scione

Scione was an ancient Greek city in Pallene, the westernmost headland of Chalcidice, on the southern coast east of the modern town of Nea Skioni....

 and Sane

Sane (Chalcidice)

Sane was an ancient Greek city in Pallene headland of Chalcidice.It was founded by Andrians in 7th century BC in modern villages Nea Roda and Sani.-References:*An Introduction to the Study of Grecian and Roman Geography by George Long, Robley Dunglison...

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