Stratonicea (Chalcidice)

Stratonicea (also Stratonikeia, Stratoniki, Stratonice) was an ancient city of Hellenistic foundation on the west coast of the Akte peninsula (now Mount Athos), a few km northwest of Cleonae; its site is at the modern village of Stratoni, Chalkidiki, Greece. Approximately 1 km distant are the ruins of Stageira, the birthplace of Aristotle. According Claudius Ptolemy, the city was located on the Singitic gulf.^[1]

Sources

↑ Claudius Ptolemy, Geography 3.2.19

Hazlitt's Classical Gazetteer
Blue Guide, Greece (ISBN 0-393-30372-1), p. 599

Subdivisions of the municipality of Aristotelis

Municipal unit of Arnaia	Arnaia Neochori Palaiochori Stanos Varvara

Municipal unit of Panagia	Gomati Megali Panagia Pyrgadikia

Municipal unit of Stagira-Akanthos	Ammouliani Ierissos Nea Roda Olympiada Ouranoupoli Stagira Stratoni Stratoniki

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