Peuce in ancient geography was an island located in the Danube Delta, in Scythia Minor (present-day Tulcea County, Romania). Its name came from the ancient Greek word peuke, 'pine tree'. It was about the size of the island of Rhodes. The island disappeared during the early Middle Ages, when the river changed its course.It was to this island that in the 330s BC the West Thracian Triballian king Syrmus took refuge when pursued by Alexander the Great.