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Phalacra

Φαλάκρα

Phalacra (Φαλάκρα), a promontory of Mount Ida, in Mysia, of which the exact position is unknown. (Eustath. ad Hom. Il. 8.47; Schol. ad Nicand. Alexiph. 40; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 40, 1170.) Stephanus Byz., who mentions it under the name Phalacrae, states that all barren and sterile mountains were called Phalacra.

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.