Olizon

{{Short description|Greek city}}

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Olizon ({{langx|grc|Ὀλιζών}}) was an ancient Greek town and polis (city-state) of Magnesia located in the region of Thessaly.{{harvnb|Hansen|Nielsen|2004|loc="Thessaly and Adjacent Regions", p. 721}}.{{Cite Strabo|ix. p.436}}{{Cite Pliny|4.9.16}}{{Cite Stephanus|s.v.}} Olizon is mentioned by Homer, who gives it the epithet of "rugged"; and in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad, Olizon formed part of the territories of Philoctetes.{{Cite Iliad|2.717}}

It is also mentioned in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax as a city in Magnesia, together with Iolcus, Spalauthra, Methone and Coracae.Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, 65. In Strabo's time, it formed part of the dependent territories of Demetrias on a section of the coast where Thaumacia and Meliboea also stood.{{Cite Strabo|9.5.15-16.}} Plutarch wrote that it was located opposite Artemisium in Euboea.Plut. Them. 8.

Olizon is located at the Palaiokastro (old fort) at Agios Andreas.{{Cite Barrington|55}}{{Cite DARE|29414}}