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Macynia (or Makynia), ancient Greek city around 4 - 5 km from the city Antirio in Greece The remains of an ancient fortress walls are in the region covering an area of approximately 150 m x 80m Strabo, Geography 10.2.6 Aetolia also has a very large mountain, Corax, which borders on Oeta; and it has among the rest of its mountains, and more in the middle of the country than Corax, Aracynthus, near which New Pleuron was founded by the inhabitants of the Old, who abandoned their city, which had been situated near Calydon in a district both fertile and level, at the time when Demetrius, surnamed Aetolicus, laid waste the country; above Molycreia are Taphiassus and Chalcis, rather high mountains, on which were situated the small cities Macynia and Chalcis, the latter bearing the same name as the mountain, though it is also called Hypochalcis
W.J. Woodhouse, Aetolia, its geography, topography and antiquities, Oxford, 1897, pp. 326-327. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/"
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