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Eion
Eion
(;
gen
.: Ἠϊόνος) was an
ancient Greek
Eretrian
colony in Thracian Macedonia. It sits at the mouth of the
Strymon River
which flows into the Aegean from the interior of
Thrace
. It is referred to in
Thucydides
'
History of the Peloponnesian War
as a place of considerable strategic importance to the Athenians during the
Peloponnesian War
.
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