name Antikyra; until the early 20th century it was called "Aspra Spitia", a name given after 1960 to a wholly new adjacent settlement, 3 km to the East; in Phocis, on the bay of Anticyra, in the Corinthian gulf; some remains are still visible.
Some important and well known rivers of Central Greece are Acheloos in Aetolia-Acarnania which is the second longest of the country, Spercheios in Phthiotis, Evenus in Aetolia-Acarnania and Mornos in Phocis.
His father who was serving as a police officer in Thessaloniki - where he met his mother - was Cretan, having born in Kandanos, Chania, while his mother who was born in Sklithro, Florina was Greek Macedonian
In 344 BCE, Phalaecus the Phocian assisted the Cnossians against their neighbors the Lyctians, and took the city of Lyctus, from which he was driven out by Archidamus, king of Sparta.
On the west, the Locrians were separated from Phocis and Boeotia by a range of mountains, extending from Mount Oeta and running parallel to the coast.
Sklithro, Phocis, a village in Phocis, part of the municipal unit Gravia
Third Sacred War (356 BC - 346 BC), between the forces of Thebes and Phocis for control of Delphi