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DOLOPIA (Ancient country) THESSALIA
Dolopia (Dolopia inhabited by the Dolopes (Dolopes), a mountainous
district in the SW. corner of Thessaly, lying between Mt. Tymphrestus, a branch
of Pindus, on the one side, and Mt. Othrys on the other. The Dolopes were, like
the Magnetes, an ancient Hellenic people, and members of the Amphictyonic league.
They are mentioned by Homer (Il. ix. 484) as included in Phthia, but were governed
by a subordinate chieftain of their own. Though nominally belonging to Thessaly,
they seem practically to have been independent: and their country was at a later
period a constant subject of contention between the Aetolians and the kings of
Macedonia. The only place in Dolopia of the slightest importance was Ctimene.
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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