Bottike

Bottike or Bottice (Greek: Βοττική) was a western region of ancient Chalcidice, inhabited by Bottiaeans, who, were expelled from their homeland Bottiaea by Macedonians sometime in the Archaic period .

It seems from the inscriptions that they had formed a confederacy (koinon) and struck silver and bronze coins.

According to Herodotus (8.127) Olynthus, close to Bottike, was originally a Bottiaean community.

Bottike is mentioned by Thucydides and Xenophon in the battles taken place in Chalcidice between late 5th and early 4th century BC.

[1] After the conquest by Philip II, unlike Bottiaea, the name of Bottike disappeared.