What is "antikyra"

Antikyra or Anticyra is a port on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth in modern Boeotia, Greece. It appeared in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships as the primary port of ancient Phocis. It was famed in antiquity for its black and white hellebore. Antikyra was destroyed and rebuilt during the 4th- and 3rd-century wars of Macedonia and Rome and following a 7th-century earthquake. During the 14th century, it was held by Catalan mercenaries. It now forms a unit of the unified municipality of Distomo-Arachova-Antikyra and is a center of Greek aluminum production. Its population in 2011 was 1,537.

Antikyra or Anticyra (, Antíkyra) usually refers to Antikyra in Boeotia, Greece (the Phocian Antikyra).

It may also refer to Malian Antikyra in Thessaly.

A third Antikyra was long believed to have existed somewhere in Locris near Naupactus on the northwestern shore of the Corinthian Gulf. This has, however, been shown to have been a misunderstanding of Titus Livius, who did not know the area well.