Sperchiae

{{Short description|Fortress in Ainis, ancient Thessaly}}

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Sperchiae or Sperchiai ({{langx|grc|Σπέρχεια}}) or Spercheiae or Spercheiai (Σπερχείαι){{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= Thessaly and Adjacent Regions|page= 684}} was a fortress in Ainis in ancient Thessaly, which, according to the description of Livy, would seem to have been situated at no great distance from the sources of the Spercheius.{{Cite Livy|32.13}} Ptolemy mentions a place Spercheia between Echinus and Thebes in Phthiotis;{{Cite Ptolemy|3.13.17}} and Pliny the Elder places Sperchios in Doris.{{Cite Pliny|4.7.13}} William Smith concludes it probable that these three names indicate the same place.{{Cite DGRG|title=Sperchiae}} Livy relates that the place was destroyed by the Aetolians in 198 BCE.

Sperchiae's site is at a place called Kastrorakhi.{{Cite Barrington|55}}{{Cite DARE|34371}}