It is cited by Herodotus as one of the cities—together with Lipaxus, Combreia, Lisaea, Campsa, Smila, Aeneia—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.
[1] Subsequently the city belonged to the Delian League since it appears on a tribute list to Athens in 434/3 BCE.
[2] 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.
[3] The site of Gigonus is located near modern Nea Kallikrateia.
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