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GAZOROS (Ancient city) SERRES
Gazorus (Gasoros, Ptol. iii. 13. § 31; Gazoros, Steph. B.) A town of the Edoni
in Macedonia, and, probably, the same place as the Graepo of the Peutinger Table.
Gasorus, therefore, probably stood between Tragilus and Euporia, towards the NW.
end of Mons Pangaeus.
MYRKINOS (Ancient city) SERRES
Murkinos, Murkinnos, Eth. Murkinios. A place belonging to the Edoni,
on the left bank of the Strymon, which was selected by Histiaeus of Miletus for
his settlement. It offered great advantages to settlers, as it contained an abundant
supply of timber for shipbuilding, as well as silver mines. (Herod. vii. 23.)
Aristagoras retired to this place, and, soon after landing, perished before some
Thracian town which he was besieging. (Herod v. 126; Thuc. iv. 102.) Afterwards,
it had fallen into the hands of the Edoni; but on the murder of Pittacus, chief
of that people, it surrendered to Brasidas. (Thuc. iv. 107.) The position of Myrcinus
was in the interior, to the N. of M. Pangaeus, not far from Amphipolis. (Leake,
North. Greece, vol. iii. p. 181.)
This text 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
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