in Ancient Geography, a city of Chalcidice. See Chalcidice. Another of Aetolia, near the mouth of the river Evenus, on the Ionian sea, at the foot of a cognominal mountain; and therefore called by some Hypochalceis. Another of Euboea, (Strabo), on the Euripus, the country of Lycophron the poet, one of the seven which formed the constellation Pleiades. Now Negroponte. E. Long. 24. 30. N. Lat. 38. 30. A fourth, the capital of Chalcidene in Syria; distinguished by the name ad Belum, a mountain or a river; and ad Libanum, from its situation (Pliny).