Drepanon

Drepanon (Greek Δρέπανον "sickle", Latinized Drepanum ) was the name of several promontories and cities in antiquity:

Cities:

• on the western tip of Sicily (also Drepana , Drepane ), today Trapani
• an ancient city in Bithynia, later Helenopolis
• Drepanon (Kyrenaika) , an ancient city on the coast of the Cyrenaica, today probably Carcura in Libya
• in Greece in the Peloponnese , in the Argolis region

Headlands, promontories and capes:

• Cape on the north coast of the Peloponnese, near today's Drepano (Achaia) in the municipality of Aroania in the prefecture of Achaia, about 10 km east of Patras
• a cape on the northwest coast of Crete, near today's Drapanon
• a promontory on the eastern bank of the Golden Horn, presumably today's Sütlüce district in Istanbul
• Cape Drepanon (Cyprus) on the west coast of Cyprus, probably near today's Agios Georgios Pegeias, a town of the same name
• a cape on the west coast of the Red Sea at the height of the southern tip of Sinai, today Ras Gebel time in Egypt
• Cape Drepanon (Egypt) , a cape on the Egyptian Mediterranean coast, today probably Marsa Aasi about 60 km west of Marsa Matruh

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.