in Ancient Geography, formerly called Neritos and Neritum, a town of Leucadia or Leucas; near a narrow neck of land, or isthmus, on a hill facing the east and Acarnania; the foot or lower part of the town was a plain lying on the sea by which Leucadia was divided from Acarnania, (Livy); though Thucydides places Leucas more inward in the island, which was joined to the continent by a bridge. It was an illustrious city, the capital of Acarnania, and the place of general assembly.