Chaetae (town)

Chaetae or Chætæ was an ancient town of Macedonia that Ptolemy assigns to Mygdonia. Its location cannot precisely be calculated from Ptolemy's account, which places it between Moryllus (nowadays Ano Apostoli, Kilkis prefecture) and Antigonia (Paeonia) which are some ways apart from one another. The town does not appear in the periplus of the fleet of Xerxes, indicating a location perhaps north of the bay of Thessalonica, near Pontoiraklia, in a place where excavations took place (Tsaoussitsa).

References

• Ptolemy, III.12.
• William Martin Leake, Travels in Northern Greece (J. Rodwell 1835), pp. 460-61.