Alopeconnesus

 ( Populated Places In Ancient Thrace ) 

Alopeconnesus or Alopekonnesos (, "fox island") was an ancient GreekAn Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005, Index city located on the western coast of ancient Thrace, located in the region of the Thracian Chersonesus. It was an Aeolians colony, and was believed to have derived its name from the fact that the settlers were directed by an oracle to establish the colony, where they should first meet a fox with its cub.Scymnus, 29; In the time of the Macedonian ascendancy, it was allied with, and under the protection of ancient Athens.Demosthenes, de Coron. p. 256c. Aristocr. p. 675. Coinage of Alopeconnesus has survived. Thrace, Alopeconnesus – Ancient Greek Coins. Wildwinds. Accessed: 18 December 2022

The Platonic philosopher, Menaechmus () was from Alopeconnesus or Prokonnesos. Suda Encyclopedia, § mu.140

Its site has been located on Anafarta Liman.

• Greek colonies in Thrace