Phileae
Phileae (Mela, 2.2.5), or PHILIAS (Tab. Peut.; Geog. Rav. 4.6, 5.12; Φιλέας, Scymn. 5.722; Steph. B. sub voce 698, who, however, has also the forms Φιλέα and Φινέα; Φιλία, Anon. B. Per. P. Eux., who also says that it was called Φρυγία, with which name it is likewise found in Arrian, Per. P. Eux. p. 25; comp. Zosim. 1.34), a town on the coast of Thrace, built by the Byzantines, on a promontory of the same name. It still exists under the slightly altered appellation of Fillea or Filine.
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.