Oea or Oia () was an ancient town on the island of

Thera Santorini (, ), officially Thira (, ) or Thera, is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from the mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago formed by the Santorini caldera. It is the southernmos ...

, mentioned by

Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; , ; ; – 160s/170s AD) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine science, Byzant ...

. Its site is located near

Kamari Kamari () is a coastal village on the southeastern part of the Aegean island of Santorini, Greece, in the Cyclades archipelago with a population of 1,065 according to the 2021 census. It is part of the Municipality of Thira and is situated appro ...

, and some of its ruins are submarine.

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Populated places in the ancient Aegean islands Former populated places in Greece Submerged places Santorini Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Greece Ancient Thera {{AncientAegean-geo-stub