Stolus or Stolos ( grc, Στῶλος), was a town of

Chalcidice Chalkidiki (; el, Χαλκιδική , also spelled Halkidiki, 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 Macedonia (Gr ...

, in

ancient Macedonia Macedonia (; grc-gre, Μακεδονία), also called Macedon (), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. The kingdom was founded and initially ruled ...

. Stolus was a member of the

Delian League The Delian League, founded in 478 BC, was an association of Greek city-states, numbering between 150 and 330, under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Pl ...

; 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