Dium
Δίον ἄκρον
Dium (Δίον ἄκρον, Ptol. 3.17.7), a promontory of Crete on the N. coast, where the island has its greatest breadth. Pliny (4.20) speaks of an inland town of this name (comp. Euseb. Praep. Ev. 5.31), which probably, however, was situated in the neighbourhood of this headland, which is now called Kávo Stravró (Höck, Kreta, vol. i. pp. 394, 398).
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.