Chaas (Elis)

Chaas (Ancient Greek: Χάας) was a town of Triphylia, in ancient Elis, nor far from Lepreum on the Akidas.[1][2] Strabo comments that some people believed that Chaas was the location of the war between Pylos and the Arcadians, as told by Homer.[1]

It is unlocated.

References
  1. Strabo. Geographica. 8.3.21. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. Eugen Oberhummer: Chaa 1.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Volume III,2, Stuttgart 1899, col. 2015.


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