Ancient Akanthos

Akanthos was an ancient Greek city on the Athos peninsula, on the narrow neck of land between the sacred mountain and the mainland, to the northwest of the Xerxes Canal. It was the colony of the city of Andros around 650 BC and was one of the biggest and wealthiest colonies in Halkidiki and the most powerful harbour of the region. Ancient Akanthos stretched in three hills of the Stratoniko mountain, in an 560 acre area, approximately 600m southeast from the Ierissos settlement.