Dicaea or Dikaia (), also called Dikaiopolis ()Suda Encyclopedia, §del.1067 was a 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 port town on the coast of ancient Thrace on Lake Bistonis, in the country of the Bistones.

Stephanus of Byzantium wrote that it took its name from the Dicaeus () who was son of Poseidon.Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, §D230.14

The place appears to have decayed at an early period.The Histories by Herodotus, Carolyn Dewald, and Robin Waterfield, 2008, p. 442: "... bed of the Lisus, Xerxes passed the Greek towns of Maronea, Dicaea, and Abdera. His route also took him past a ..."; Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 27; In the 19th century, William Hazlitt wrote that its site was that of the later Stabulum Diomedis ('Diomedes's stable'), where Theodoric Strabo died in 481 CE.Marcellinus Comes, 481.1. However, modern scholarship rejects this identification and identifies Stabulum Diomedis with Tirida.

The site of Dicaea is located about west of Mese.

See also List of ancient Greek cities

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See also Greek colonies in Thrace