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