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Phalara

Phalara was a city in Malis in ancient Thessaly that functioned as the port of Lamia. It is located at the modern town of Stylida.

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Phalara (Ancient Greek: τὰ Φάλαρα)1 was a city in Malis in ancient Thessaly that functioned as the port of Lamia. It is located at the modern town of Stylida.234

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  1. Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p. 435. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. 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.
  3. Stillwell, Richard; MacDonald, William L.; McAllister, Marian Holland, eds. (1976). "Phalara". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press.
  4. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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