Gigonus or Gigonos ( grc, Γίγωνος) was an ancient Greek polis (city-state) in the

Chalcidice Chalkidiki (; el, Χαλκιδική , also spelled Halkidiki, is a peninsula and regional unit of Greece, part of the region of Central Macedonia, in the geographic region of Macedonia in Northern Greece. The autonomous Mount Athos region c ...

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 by ...

. It is cited by Herodotus as one of the cities—together with Lipaxus, Combreia,

Lisaea Lisaea or Lisaia ( grc, Λίσαια), also Lisae or Lisai ( grc, Λίσαι), was an ancient Greek polis (city-state) in the Chalcidice, ancient Macedonia. It is cited by Herodotus as one of the cities—together with Lipaxus, Combreia, Gigon ...

, Campsa,

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Aeneia Aenea (; grc, Αἴνεια, ''Aineia'') was an ancient Greek city in northwesternmost Chalcidice, said to have been founded by Aeneas, and was situated, according to Livy, opposite Pydna, and 15 miles from Thessalonica. It appears to have st ...

—located in the vicinity of the Thermaic Gulf, in a region called Crusis near the peninsula of Pallene, where Xerxes recruited troops in his expedition of the year 480 BCE against Greece. Subsequently the city belonged to 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 ...

since it appears on a tribute list to Athens in 434/3 BCE. Gigonus is also cited by Thucydides as the place where the Athenians, under the command of Callias, established a camp in the year 432 BCE when they were heading against

Potidaea __NOTOC__ Potidaea (; grc, Ποτίδαια, ''Potidaia'', also Ποτείδαια, ''Poteidaia'') was a colony founded by the Corinthians around 600 BC in the narrowest point of the peninsula of Pallene, the westernmost of three peninsulas at ...

. The site of Gigonus is located near modern Nea Kallikrateia.

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