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Stolus or Stolos (), was a town of
Chalcidice Chalkidiki (; , alternatively Halkidiki), also known as Chalcidice, is a peninsula and regional units of Greece, regional unit of Greece, part of the region of Central Macedonia, in the Geographic regions of Greece, geographic region of Macedon ...
, in
ancient Macedonia Macedonia ( ; , ), also called Macedon ( ), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, which later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. The kingdom was founded and initially ruled by the royal ...
. Stolus was a member of the
Delian League The Delian League was a confederacy of Polis, Greek city-states, numbering between 150 and 330, founded in 478 BC under the leadership (hegemony) of Classical Athens, Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Achaemenid Empire, Persian ...
; its name appears on tribute lists from 454/3 to 434/3 BCE. It is considered by some to be the same as the town called Scolus; and by others to be the same as Polichnitai. The site of Stolus is near the modern Plana.


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Populated places in ancient Macedonia Former populated places in Greece Geography of ancient Chalcidice Members of the Delian League {{AncientMacedonia-geo-stub