Chalaeum or Chalaion () or Chaleion (Χάλειον) or Chaleos (Χαλεώς) was an ancient town on the coast of the Locri Ozolae, near the borders of

Phocis Phocis (; ; ) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Central Greece. It stretches from the western mountainsides of Parnassus on the east to the mountain range of Vardousia on the west, upon the Gu ...

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erroneously calls it a town of Phocis. During the

Peloponnesian War The Second Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), often called simply the Peloponnesian War (), was an Ancient Greece, ancient Greek war fought between Classical Athens, Athens and Sparta and their respective allies for the hegemony of the Ancien ...

, the town was one of several that were forced to provide hostages to the

Lacedaemonian Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement in the valley of Evrotas river in Laconia, in southeastern Pe ...

army in 426 BCE. Several inscriptions mentioning the town have been found. One of them refers to an agreement of ''

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'' signed with the bordering city of Tritaea, according to which the inhabitants of each of the towns could own or lease land in the neighboring one. Its site has been located near modern

Galaxidi Galaxidi or Galaxeidi (), is a town and a former municipality in the southern part of Phocis, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Delphi, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of ...

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Populated places in Ozolian Locris Former populated places in Greece {{OzolianLocris-geo-stub