Cape Megalo Embolo (, 'Great Point') or Karaburnu (Turkish 'Black Cape'), probably the ancient Aeneium or Aineion (), is a cape southwest of

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...

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, located next to the village of

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. There is a lighthouse. The line from Megalo Embolo to the mouth of the Vardar/Axios is sometimes considered to define the entrance of the

Thermaic Gulf The Thermaic Gulf (, ), also called the Gulf of Thessaloniki and the Macedonian Gulf, is a Gulf (geography), gulf constituting the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. The city of Thessaloniki is at its northeastern tip, and it is bounded by Pie ...

.Malamut Elisabeth, Grélois Jean-Pierre, "Le port de Thessalonique (IVe-XVIe siècles)", ''Actes des congrès de la Société des historiens médiévistes de l'enseignement supérieur public'' 35:131-147, La Rochelle, 2004. "Ports maritimes et ports fluviaux au Moyen Age."
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/ref> Geographically, it is the westernmost point of the

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peninsula, although administratively it belongs to the regional unit of Thessaloniki. It appears to correspond to the promontory of Aeneium described in the ''Periodos to Nicomedes'' of

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, and was probably the site of the ancient city of Aenea. The smaller cape Karabournaki, Mikro Karabournou, or Mikro Emvolo is found to its northeast.

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