Pheca

{{Short description|Fortress and town in ancient Thessaly}}

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Pheca or Phaika or Phaeca ({{langx|grc|Φαίκα}}) or Phecadum was a fortress and town lying between the pass of Portes and Gomphi in ancient Thessaly.{{Cite Livy|31.41, 32.14}} In the war against Philip V of Macedon, Amynander of Athamania, king of the Athamanes, in co-operation with the Roman consul Titus Quinctius Flamininus, having descended from the pass of Portes, first took Pheca and then Gomphi itself, 198 BCE.{{Cite Livy|32.14}}

The site of Pheca is at modern Varybobi.{{Cite Barrington|55}}{{Cite DARE|29435}}