Assa
Ἀσσα
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.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.