Mecyberna

{{Short description|Town of Chalcidice, ancient Macedonia}}

Mecyberna or Mekyberna ({{langx|grc|Μηκύβερνα}}) was a town of Chalcidice, ancient Macedonia, which stood at the head of the Toronaic Gulf, which was also called Sinus Mecybernaeus.{{Cite Pliny|4.10}}{{Cite Mela|2.3.1}} Mecyberna was the port of Olynthus.{{Cite Strabo|vii. p.330}} and lay between that town and Sermyle.{{Cite Herodotus|7.122}}

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The town was a member of the Delian League, as its name appears in tribute lists from 454/3 to 433/2 BCE.{{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= Thrace from Axios to Strymon |page= 831}} It was taken from the Athenians by the Chalcidic Thracians (420 BCE),{{Cite Thucydides|5.39}} and surrendered to Philip II of Macedon before the siege of Olynthus (349 BCE).{{Cite Diodorus|16.54}}

The site of Mecyberna is near the modern Molyvopyrgos.{{Cite Barrington|50}}{{Cite DARE|32136}}