ASSA
ASSA (
Ἀσσα: Eth.
Ἀσσαῖος), a town of Chalcidice, in Macedonia, on the Singitic gulf. (
Hdt. 7.122.)
It is probably the same town as the
ASSERA of Theopompus (
Steph. B. sub voce Ἄσσηρα), and the CASSERA of Pliny (
4.10), its territory being called ASSYRYTIS (
Ἀσσυρῦτις) by Aristotle (
Hist. An. 3.12). Here was a river which was called the
Ψυχρός from its coldness. (Aristot.
l.c.) Leake places Assa at the head of the Singitic gulf, at some ruins called
Paleókastro, about midway, by land, between
Erissó and
Vurvurí. (
Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 153.)
