Cotyrta
Κοτύρτα
Cotyrta (Κοτύρτα: Eth. Κοτυρταῖος), a town in the S. of Laconia, near the promontory Malea, which was garrisoned by the Lacedaemonians, along with Aphrodisias, in the Peloponnesian War, in order to protect this part of the coast from the ravages of the Athenians, who had established themselves at Cythera. (Thuc. 4.56; Steph. B. sub voce
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.