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Malloea or Maloea or Mallaea or Malloia (Ancient Greek: Μαλλοία) was a town and polis (city-state)[1] of southern Perrhaebia in ancient Thessaly. It is quoted by Livy that the town surrendered to the army of Aetolian League in 200 BCE.[2] Again, during the Roman-Seleucid War, it was seized by an army of Aetolians under Menippus in 191 BCE.[3] and shortly afterward it was attacked by the army of Philip V of Macedon. Upon the arrival of Roman troops, who were then allies of Philip, Malloea surrendered.[4] In 185 BCE, the Perrhaebians requested the return of Malloea, Ericinium and Gonnocondylum, which Philip had re-named Olympias.[5] In 171 BCE, during the Third Macedonian War, the town was taken and looted by the Romans.[6]
The site of Malloea is at the paleokastro (old fort) near Margara, a site in the community of Sykia.[7][8]