Tritaea or Triteia () was town of the Ozolian Locrians, described by

Stephanus of Byzantium Stephanus or Stephen of Byzantium (; , ''Stéphanos Byzántios''; centuryAD) was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled ''Ethnica'' (). Only meagre fragments of the dictionary survive, but the epit ...

as lying between

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and the Ozolian Locrians. 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 '' sympoliteia'' signed with the bordering city of Chalaeum, according to which the inhabitants of each of the towns could own or lease land in the neighboring one. Its site is located near modern Penteoria.

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