Buchetium

Buchetium or Bouchetion (Ancient Greek: Βουχέτιον), or Buchaetium or Bouchaition (Βουχαίτιον),[1] or Buchetum or Boucheton (Βουχετόν),[2] or Bucheta or Boucheta (Βούχετα),[3] was a city of the Cassopaei in ancient Thesprotia, a little above the sea.[1]

Its site was occupied by the medieval settlement of Rogoi, near modern Nea Kerasounta.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b Strabo. Geographica. Vol. vii. p.324. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. ^ Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 22.9.
  3. ^ Dem. de Halonn. § 32; Harpocrat. s. v.
  4. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 54, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
  5. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.