Cnemides

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Cnemides or Knemides ({{langx|grc|Κνημῖδες}}), also Cnemis or Knemis (Κνῆμις),Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 23; {{cite Pliny|4.7.12}} is the name of a fortress, and probably of a town, in ancient Phocis. Strabo places Cnemides on Cape Cnemides opposite the islands called Lichades and the Euboean promontory Cenaeum, distant 20 stadia from Thronium and from Daphnus.{{Cite Strabo|9.4.4.}}{{Cite Ptolemy|3.15.10}}{{Cite Mela|2.3.67}} The Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, successively describing towns along the Phocian coast, places Cnemides after Thronium and before Elateia and Panopeus.{{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|year= 2004|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn= 0-19-814099-1|chapter= Western Lokris |page= 668}}

The site of Cnemides is near the modern Gouvali.{{Cite Barrington|55}}{{Cite DARE|34356}}

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Category:Populated places in ancient Phocis

Category:Populated places in Opuntian Locris

Category:Former populated places in Greece

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