Phalanna

Phalanna (Ancient Greek: Φάλαννα), was a town and polis (city-state)[1] of the Perrhaebi in ancient Thessaly, situated on the left bank of the Peneius, southwest of Gonnus.

Strabo says that the Homeric Orthe became the acropolis of Phalanna;[2] but in the lists of Pliny Orthe and Phalanna occur as two distinct towns.

[4] It was written Phalannus in Ephorus, and was called Hippia by Hecataeus of Miletus.

[4] Phalanna is mentioned by Livy as near Mylae and Gyrton during the Third Macedonian War between the Romans and Perseus of Macedon in 171 BCE.

[5] The site of Phalanna is in the modern community of Damasi (Δαμάσι)[6] near the village of Damasouli (Δαμασούλι).