Listed 13 sub titles with search on: Various locations for wider area of: "FTHIOTIDA Prefecture GREECE" .
ELATIA (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Philoboeotus (Philoboiotos), a fertile woody hill in the plain of Elateia in Phocis,
at the foot of which there was water. (Plut. Sull. 16.) This description, according
to Leake, agrees with the remarkable insulated conical height between Bissikeni
and the Cephissus. (Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 194.)
EPIKNIMIDIA LOKRIS (Ancient area) FTHIOTIDA
Nicaea (Nikaia: Eth. Nikaieus), a fortress of the Locri Epicnemidii,
situated upon the sea, and close to the pass of Thermopylae. It is described by
Aeschines as one of the places which commanded the pass. (De Fals. Leg. p. 45,
ed. Steph.) It was the first Locrian town after Alpenos, the latter being at the
very entrance of the pass. The surrender of Nicaea by Phalaecus to Philip, in
B.C. 346, made the Macedonian king master of Thermopylae, and brought the Sacred
War to an end. (Diod. xvi. 59.) Philip kept possession of it for some time, but
subsequently gave it to the Thessalians along with Magnesia. (Dem. Phil. ii. p.
153, ed. Reiske; Aesch. c. Ctesiph. p. 73, ed. Steph.) But in B.C. 340 we again
find Nicaea in the possession of Philip. (Dern. in Phil. Ep. p. 153.) According
to Memnon (ap. Phot. p. 234, a., ed. Bekker; c. 41; ed. Orelli) Nicaea was destroyed
by the Phocians, and its inhabitants founded the Bithynian Nicaea. But even if
this is true, the town must have been rebuilt soon afterwards, since we find it
in the hands of the Aetolians during the Roman wars in Greece. (Polyb. x. 42,
xvii. 1; Liv. xxviii. 5, xxxii. 32.) Subsequently the town is only mentioned by
Strabo (ix. p. 426). Leake identifies Nicaea with the castle of Pundonitza, where
there are Hellenic remains. (Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 5, seq.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
GORGOPOTAMOS (Village) FTHIOTIDA
Today's Gorgopotamos confluent of Sperchios, SE at the river bank which is in the village.
KALLIDROMO (Mountain) FTHIOTIDA
LARYMNA (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
Anchoe, a place on the borders of Boeotia and of Locris, near Upper Larymna, at
which the waters of the Cephissus broke forth from their subterraneous channel.
There was also a lake of the same name at this place. (Strab. ix. pp. 406, 407;
Plin. iv. 7. s. 12; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 289.)
MALIAKOS GULF (Gulf) FTHIOTIDA
Anticyra, a town in Thessaly in the district Malis at the mouth of the Spercheus. (Herod. vii. 198; Strab. pp. 418, 434.) According to Stephanus (s. v. Antikurai) the best hellebore was grown at this place, and one of its citizens exhibited the medicine to Heracles, when labouring under madness in this neighbourhood
MESSOPOTAMIA (Village) SPERCHIADA
THERMOPYLES (Historic place) LAMIA
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