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LYDIA (Village) KAVALA
It was in Philippi, the year 49 BC when St. Paul founded the first Christian Church and baptized the first Christian in Europe, Lydia, in the river Zygactis. Lydia nowadays is called the small village next to ancient Philippi.
SANTORINI (Island) KYKLADES
This name prevailed long afterwards from the Italian Santa Irini in
the Crusade period, due to the small chapel of Santa Irini, situated on the island
of Thirassia at the entrance
of the Caldera.
(Text: Manolis Lignos)
This text (extract) is cited February 2004 from the Municipality
of Thera tourist pamphlet (2003-2004).
CHIOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
Was formerly called Pityussa, as also, it is said, was Chios.
The name Chios, according to some authorities, is of Phoenician origin and means mastic.
Ion the tragic poet says in his history that Poseidon came to the island when it was uninhabited; that there he had intercourse with a nymph, and that when she was in her pains there was a fall of snow ( chion), and that accordingly Poseidon called his son Chios.
DELOS (Island) KYKLADES
Delos received the name of Ortygia from Asteria, sister of Leto, who was changed into a quail (ortux) to escape from Zeus. She was then metamorphosed into the island afterwards called Delos
EDESSA (Ancient city) PELLA
A name which was applied to Edessa in Macedonia. (Steph. B. s. v. Aigai. )
EPIDAVROS (Ancient city) ARGOLIS
Epidaurus used to be called Epicarus, for Aristotle says that Carians took possession of it, as also of Hermione, but that after the return of the Heracleidae the Ionians who had accompanied the Heracleidae from the Attic Tetrapolis to Argos took up their abode with these Carians.
ESTIEOTIS (Ancient area) THESSALIA
These places belong in fact to Histiaeotis, though in earlier times Histiaeotis was called Doris, as they say; but when the Perrhaebians took possession of it, who had already subdued Histiaeotis in Euboea and had forced its inhabitants to migrate to the mainland, they called the country Histiaeotis after these Histiaeans, because of the large number of these people who settled there.
GAVDOS (Island) CRETE
A small island below the south shore of Crete, now called Gozo of Candia, for distinction's sake from Gozo of Malta.
IOS (Island) KYKLADES
A small island in the Aegean Sea, otherwise called Ios
KAFYES (Ancient city) LEVIDI
The name of the city is clearly derived from Cepheus, the son of Aleus, but its form in the Arcadian dialect, Caphyae, is the one that has survived. (Paus. 8.23.2)
KYTHNOS (Island) KYKLADES
Serpent-island, a name of Cythnos
MYCENAE (Mycenean palace) ARGOLIS
Mushroom=mukes, Mycenae takes its name from
A poetical name of Paros
RHODES (Island) DODEKANISSOS
In earlier times Rhodes was called Ophiussa and Stadia, and then Telchinis, after the Telchines, who took up their abode in the island.
Althaemenes fearing to be his father's murderer, he set out from Crete with his sister Apemosyne, and put in at a place in Rhodes, and having taken possession of it he called it Cretinia.
SERIFOS (Island) KYKLADES
many-feeding, ferlile, as ironical epith. of the barren island of Seriphos
THESSALONIKI (Ancient city) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
Two legendary names, which Thessalonica is said to have borne in early
times, are Emathia (Zonar. Hist. xii. 26) and Halia (Steph. B. s. v.), the latter
probably having reference to the maritime position of the town. During the first
period of its authentic history, it was known under the name of Therma (Therma,
Aesch.; Therme, Herod., Thucyd.; Thermai, Mal. Chronog. p. 190, ed. Bonn), derived,
in common with the designation of the gulf (Thermaicus Sinus), from the hot salt-springs,
which are found on various parts of this coast, and one of which especially is
described by Pococke as being at a distance of 4 English miles from the modern
city. Three stories are told of the origin of the name Thessalonica. The first
(and by far the most probable) is given by Strabo (vii. Epit. 10), who says that
Therma was rebuilt by Cassander, and called after his wife Thessalonica, the daughter
of Philip: the second is found in. Steph. B. (s. v.), who says that its new name
was a memorial of a victory obtained by Philip over the Thessalians (see Const.
Porphyrog. De Them. ii. p. 51, ed Bonn): the third is in the Etym. Magn. where
it is stated that Philip himself gave the name in honour of his daughter. Whichever
of these stories is true, the new name of Thessalonica, and the new eminence connected
with the name, are distinctly associated with the Macedonian period, and not at
all with the earlier passages of true Greek history. The name, thus given, became
permanent. Through the Roman and Byzantine periods it remained unaltered. In the
Middle Ages the Italians gave it the form of Salonichi or Saloniki, which is still
frequent. In Latin chronicles we find Salonicia. In German poems of the thirteenth
century the name appears, with a Teutonic termination, as Salnek. The uneducated
Greeks of the present day call the place Salonike, the Turks Selanik.
This extract is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ASSOPOS (Ancient city) LACONIA
The origin of the name Assopos has two interpretations. The first is that, it comes from the name of a hero who descended the area with the Heraklidis and the second from the stream, which crossed the plain. The most possible one is the second, since it is mentioned as the name of a lot of streams in Korinthia, Attika, Viotia and elsewhere. The etymology of the word (according the Homer dictionary of the professor Pandazidis) comes from Asis= ilis and Opsis something which explains why the ancient Greeks had made a God of Assopos, as the assistant of Asklipios, since the mud of a lot of streams is considered to have healing properties.
DODEKANISSOS (Island complex) GREECE
The name Dodecanese is a thoroughly modern term and was applied in 1908 when twelve privileged islands of the Eastern Aegean, excluding Rhodes, Kos and Lipsos, united to protest against the deprivation by Turkey of special privileges that they had enjoyed since the sixteenth century under Suleiman the Magnificent 1495 1566.
DODONI (Ancient city) IOANNINA
An ancient name of the district about Dodona in Epirus.
CHANIA (Town) CRETE
Scholars have been trying for years to analyse the etymology of the name "Hania," and to decide on the time when the name was changed from "Kythonia" to "Hania". The new name is first met as "Cania" in the document "Sexteriorum Cretensiu in Militias divisio" in 1211. Then the name "Canea" is mentioned in the document which relinquishes the Hania area to the Venicians in 1252. As for the change of the name from "Kythonia" to "Hania", the most convincing point of view is that of Prof. N. Platonas, who associates it with the existence of a big village "Alhania", named after the God "Valhanos" (Vulcan). The Sarasin Arabs found this name easier to use but confused it with their own word "Al Hanim" (the Inn). After the departure of the Arabs, the syllable "Al", probably taken to be the Arab article "Al" (the), was dropped when the name was translated into the Greek "Hania" and the Latin "Canea".
This text is cited Sep 2002 from the Municipality of Chania URL below.
KARLOVASSI (Small town) SAMOS
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