The Ocalea or Okalea () was a river of
ancient Boeotia
Boeotia ( ), sometimes Latinisation of names, Latinized as Boiotia or Beotia (; modern Greek, modern: ; ancient Greek, ancient: ), is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the modern regions of Greece, region of Central Greece (adm ...
, flowing midway between
Haliartus
Haliartus or Haliartos (), also known as Ariartus, Ariartos, Hariartus, or Hariartos (Ἀρίαρτος or Ἁρίαρτος), was a town of ancient Boeotia, and one of the cities of the Boeotian League. It was situated on the southern side of La ...
and
Alalcomenae, with the town of
Ocalea upon its banks.
William Martin Leake
William Martin Leake FRS (14 January 17776 January 1860) was an English soldier, spy, topographer, diplomat, antiquarian, writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He served in the British Army, spending much of his career in the Mediterrane ...
who visited the area in the 19th century, describes it as rising in the eastern part of
Mount Leibethrium, and issuing through a precipitous gorge lying between the eastern end of
Mount Tilphossium and a rocky peak.
William Martin Leake
William Martin Leake FRS (14 January 17776 January 1860) was an English soldier, spy, topographer, diplomat, antiquarian, writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He served in the British Army, spending much of his career in the Mediterrane ...
, ''Travels in Northern Greece'', vol. ii. p. 205.
References
Geography of ancient Boeotia
Rivers of Greece
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