Galepsus or Galepsos (Ancient Greek: Γαληψός) was a town on the north coast of the peninsula of Sithonia, Chalcidice, ancient Macedonia.[1] William Martin Leake states that Galepsus was the same place afterwards called Physcella,[2][3] a distinction which was required, as there was another Galepsus at no great distance.[4]

The site of Galepsus is about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the modern Nikite.[5][6]

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  1. Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 7.122.
  2. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Book 4.10.
  3. Pomponius Mela. De situ orbis. Vol. 2.3.1.
  4. William Martin Leake, Trav. in North. Greece, vol. iii. p. 155.
  5. Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.
  6. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Galepsus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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