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STRYMONAS (River) SERRES
Laeaei (Laiaioi), a Paeonian tribe in Macedonia, included within the dominion
of Sitalces, probably situated to the E. of the Strymon. (Thuc. ii. 96.)
KARIOTISSA (Small town) GIANNITSA
The residents of Kariotissa keep alive the customs of their ancestors
and that's obvious in all their festivals of religious character and in their
daily life. The festival takes place at the village on 23rd of August, the day
that the church The Assumption of the Virgin celebrates. It used to be one of
the most important cultural events in all the prefecture, while 30 years ago many
bands and famous singers participated.
Every year, the young boys of the village, who are about to join the
army, organize and participate in a series of traditional and religious festivals.
The whole year they prepare a float and on Sunday that Carnival is celebrated,
they wander it in the whole village, while they are dressed with costumes and
make fun of the current events. On Good Friday, they take over to lift on their
shoulders the Epitaph. This way, all the men of the village have the opportunity
to participate once in their life actively in the procession of the Epitaph. The
series of tradition ends with the participation to the Hallowing of the river,
which is situated on the northern side of the village, the day of Epiphany. Everybody
believes that those who will take out the holly cross from the water, will be
healthy and will be in favor of God the whole year.
This text is cited May 2005 from the Municipality of Megas Alexandros URL below, which contains images
AKANTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
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PEONIA (Ancient area) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
Paeones (Paiones, Hom. Il. 845, xvi. 287, xvii. 348, xxi. 139; Herod.
iv. 33, 49, v. 1, 13, 98, vii. 113, 185; Thuc. ii. 96:; Strab. i. pp. 6, 28; vii.
pp. 316, 318, 323, 329, 330.331; Arrian, Anab. ii. 9. § 2, iii. 12. §4; Plut.
Alex. 39; Polyaen Strat. iv. 12. § 3; Eustath. ad Hom. Il. xvi. 287; Liv. xlii.
51), a people divided into several tribes, who, before the Argolic colonisation
of Emathia, appear to have occupied the entire country afterwards called Macedonia,
with the exception of that portion of it which was considered a part of Thrace.
As the Macedonian kingdom increased, the district called Paeonia (Paionia, Thuc.
ii. 99; Polyb. v. 97, xxiv. 8; Strab. vii. pp. 313, 318, 329, 331; Ptol. iii.
13. § 28; Liv. xxxiii. 19, xxxviii. 17, xxxix. 54, xl. 3, xlv. 29; Plin. iv. 17,
vi. 39) was curtailed of its dimensions, on every side, though the name still
continued to be applied in a general sense to the great belt of interior country
which covered Upper and Lower Macedonia to the N. and NE., and a portion of which
was a monarchy nominally independent of Macedonia until fifty years after the
death of Alexander the Great. The banks of the wide-flowing Axius seem to have
been the centre of the Paeonian power from the time when Pyraechmes and Asteropaeus
led the Paeonians to the assistance of Priam (Hom. ll. cc.), down to the latest
existence of the monarchy. They appear neither as Macedonians, Thracians, or Illyrians,
but professed to be descended from the Teucri of Troy. When Megabazus crossed
the river Strymon, he conquered the Paeonians, of whom two tribes, called the
Siropaeones and Paeoplae, were deported into Asia by express order of Dareius,
whose fancy had been struck at Sardis by seeing a beautiful and shapely Paeonian
woman carrying a vessel on her head, leading a horse to water, and spinning flax,
all at the same time. (Herod. v. 12-16.) These two tribes were the Paeonians of
the lower districts, and their country was afterwards taken possession of by the
Thracians. When the Temenidae had acquired Emathia, Almopia, Crestonia, and Mygdonia,
the kings of Paeonia still continued to rule over the country beyond the straits
of the Axius, until Philip, son of Amyntas, twice reduced them to terms, when
weakened by the recent death of their king Agis; and they were at length subdued
by Alexander (Diodor. xix. 2, 4, 22, xvii. 8); after which they were probably
submissive to the Macedonian sovereigns. An inscribed marble which has been discovered
in the acropolis of Athens records an interchange of good offices between the
Athenians and Audoleon, king of Paeonia, in the archonship of Diotimus, B.C. 354,
or a few years after the accession of Philip and Audoleon to their respective
thrones. The coins of Audoleon, who reigned at that time, and adopted, after the
the death of Alexander, the common types of that prince and his successors,- the
head of Alexander in the character of young Heracles, and on the obverse the figure
of Zeus Aetophorus, - prove the civilisation of Paeonia under its kings. Afterwards
kings of Paeonia are not heard of, so that their importance must have been only
transitory; but it is certain that during the troublous times of Macedonia, that
is, in the reign of Cassander, the principality of the Paeonians existed, and
afterwards disappeared. At the Roman conquest the Paeonians on the W. of the Axius
were included in Macedonia Secunda. Paeonia extended to the Dentheletae and Maedi
of Thrace, and to the Dardani, Penestae, and Dassaretii of Illyria, comprehending
the various tribes who occupied the upper valleys of the Erigon, Axius, Strymon
and Augitas as far S. as the fertile plain of Siris. Its principal tribes to the
E. were the Odomanti, Aestraei, and Agrianes, parts of whose country were known
by the names of Parstrymonia and Paroreia, the former containing probably the
valleys of the Upper Strymon, and of its great tributary the river of Strumitza,
the latter the adjacent mountains. On the W. frontier of Paeonia its subdivisions
bordering on the Penestae and Dassaretii were Deuriopus and Pelagonia, which with
Lyncestis comprehended the entire country watered by the Erigon and its branches.
(Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. pp. 212, 306, 462, 470.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
SINTIKI (Ancient area) SERRES
Sinti (Thuc, ii. 98; Steph. B. s. v.; Liv. xlii. 51), a Thracian tribe
who occupied the district lying between the ridge called Cercine and the right
or W. bank of the Strymon, in the upper part of the course of that river, which
was called from thence Sintice (Sintike, Ptol. iii. 13. § 30). When Macedonia
was divided into four provinces at the Roman conquest, Sintice was associated
with Bisaltia in the First Macedonia, of which Amphipolis was the capital (Liv.
xlv. 29). It contained the three towns Heracleia, Paroecopolis, Tristolus.
VERIA (Ancient city) VERIA
Brygi (Brugoi), called Briges by the Macedonians, a Thracian people dwelling in
Macedonia, north of Beroea in the neighbourhood of Mt. Bermius. They attacked
the army of Mardonius, when he was marching through Macedonia into Greece in B.C.
492. (Herod. vi. 45, vii. 73, 185; Strab. vii. pp. 295, 330; Steph. B. s. v. Briges.)
It was generally believed that a portion of this Thracian people emigrated to
Asia Minor, where they were known under the name of Phrygians. (Herod. vii. 73;
Strab. ll. cc.) Stephanus mentions two Macedonian towns, Brygias (Brugias) and
Brugion), which were apparently situated in the territory of the Brygi. Some of
the Brygi were also settled in Illyricum, where they dwelt apparently north of
Epidamnus. Strabo assigns to them a town Cydriae. (Strab. vii. pp. 326, 327; Appian,
B.C. ii. 39.)
KALAMARIA (Municipality) THESSALONIKI
The Council of Kalamaria constitutes the second largest council of
the Municipality of Thessaloniki, and also Northern Greece, and ninth in all of
Greece. According to the inventory of 2002, the population of the council amounts
to 87.312 people, against the 80.698 residents. The increase of residents in the
region amounts to 8,2%. Women constitute 52% (45.535) of the total population,
an increase of 12,4% in the last decade.
However, the increasing population does not compare with the percentage
of births in the Municipality, but is due to relocation of families from other
parts of Thessaloniki. The age-related structure of population does not differ
from that of remainder Greece. In Kalamaria according to the census made in 1991,
15,2% of the total population was individuals aged over 60 years.
The rate of unemployment, according to the inventory 1991, is calculated
at 6,9% the number of unemployed individuals in the region is calculated at 2.175.
Unemployment appears to affect women more than men, 1.129 women compared to 1.046
unemployed men. Unemployment in young people age 25-29 has increased, numbering
1.098 individuals.
This text is cited March 2005 from the Municipality of Kalamaria URL below
THESSALONIKI (Town) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
Bearing names that often recall the lost homelands (Nea Varna, Saranda
Ekklisies, Neo Kordelio, etc.), a series of new communities sprouted up on the
outskirts of the traditional city, to the west, after the swamps were drained
beyond Vardaris Square (1930) and the eastern sector expanded (Aretsou).
Most of them were shanty towns, thrown together in a hundred different
ways but mainly closely packed and jerry-built, in order to provide shelter for
some 100,000 refugees from Asia
Minor, Thrace and the Black Sea (Pontus). A typical example of a refugee settlement
was Kalamaria, a whole municipality nowadays, created by the vitality and industriousness
of people from the Black Sea.
By kind permission of:Ekdotike Athenon
This text is cited Nov 2003 from the Macedonian Heritage URL below, which contains image.
AKANTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
While Xerxes was at Acanthus, it happened that Artachaees, overseer of the digging of the canal, died of an illness. He was high in Xerxes' favor, an Achaemenid by lineage, and the tallest man in Persia, lacking four finger-breadths of five royal cubits1 in stature, and his voice was the loudest on earth. For this reason Xerxes mourned him greatly and gave him a funeral and burial of great pomp, and the whole army poured libations on his tomb.The Acanthians hold Artachaees a hero, and sacrifice to him, calling upon his name. This they do at the command of an oracle.
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