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AKANTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
The peninsula is Pallene . . . has an isthmus five stadia in width, through which a canal is cut. On the isthmus is situated a city founded by the Corinthians, which in earlier times was called Potidaea
ALIAKMON (River) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
Herodotus in making the river the frontier between Bottiaiis and Makedonis, seems to be in error, as in uniting the Haliakmon with the Lydias
AXIOS (River) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
Astycus (Astupalaia : Vravnitza, or river of Istib), a river of Paeonia, flowing into the Axius, on which was situated the residence of the Paeonian kings. (Polyaen. Strat. iv. 12; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. pp. 464, 475.)
DION (Ancient city) PIERIA
A river of Macedonia, near Dium, the same, according to Pausanias (ix. 30), with the Baphyrus.
There is also a river called Helicon. After a course of seventy-five stades the stream hereupon disappears under the earth. After a gap of about twenty-two stades the water rises again, and under the name of Baphyra instead of Helicon flows into the sea as a navigable river. The people of Dium say that at first this river flowed on land throughout its course. But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the river sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter.
This extract is from: Pausanias. Description of Greece (ed. W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., & H.A. Ormerod, 1918). Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
Baphyras or Baphyrus (Baphuras), a small river of Macedonia, flowing
by Dium through marshes into the sea. It was celebrated for the excellence of
its teuthides, or cuttle-fish. (Liv. xliv. 6; Athen. vii. p. 326, d.; Lycophr.
274.) Pausanias (ix. 30. § 8) relates that this was the same river as the Helicon,
which, after flowing 75 stadia above ground, has then a subterraneous course of
22 stadia, and on its reappearance is navigable under the name of Baphyras. (Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 411.)
The Macedonian king, marched against the cities of Chalcidice, took the fortress of Zereia by siege and razed it
Then rounding Ampelus, the headland of Torone, it passed the Greek towns of Torone, Galepsus, Sermyle, Mecyberna, and Olynthus
HERAKLIA (Ancient city) PIERIA
Apila (Platamona), a river in Pieria in Macedonia, rising in Mt. Olympus, and flowing into the sea near Heracleia. (Plin. iv. 10. s. 17; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. pp. 405, 406.)
KERKINI (Lake) SERRES
Cercinitis (Kerkinitis limne, Anab. i. 11. § 3: Takhyno), the large
lake lying at the N. foot of the hill of Amphipolis, which Thucydides (v. 7) accurately
describes by the words to limnodes tou Strumonos, as it is, in fact, nothing more
than an enlargement of the river Strymon, varying in size according to the season
of the year, but never reduced to that of the river only, according to its dimensions
above and below the lake. Besides the Strymon, the Augitas contributes to the
inundation as well as some other smaller streams from the mountains on either
side. The lake Prasias (Prasias), with its amphibious inhabitants who are described
by Herodotus (v. 16) as living on the piles and planks procured from Mount Orbelus,
with which they constructed their dwellings on the lake, was the same as the Strymonic
lake, or Cercinitis. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 211.)
KRISTONIA (Ancient area) KILKIS
Echidorus (Echeidoros, Scyl. p. 26; Echedoros, Ptol. iii. 13. § 4),
a small river of Macedonia, which rises in the Crestonaean territory, and after
flowing through Mygdonia empties itself into a lagoon close to the Axius (Herod.
vii. 124, 127). It is now called the Galliko: Gallicum was the name of a place
situated 16 M. P. from Thessalonica, on the Roman road to Stobi (Peut. Tab.).
It is probable that when the ancient name of the river fell into disuse, it was
replaced by that of a town which stood upon its banks, and that the road to Stobi
followed the valley of the Echidorus. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. pp. 437,439.)
KYRROS (Ancient city) GIANNITSA
(Mandarai), the district about Cyrrhus in Macedonia. (Steph. B. s. v.)
MYGDONIA (Ancient country) GREECE
Aulon, a hollow between hills or banks, was the name given to many
such districts, and to places situated in them.
In Mygdonia in Macedonia, situated a day's march from the Chalcidian
Arnae. (Thuc. iv. 103.) Leake (Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 170) regards it as
simply the name of the pass, through which the waters of the lake Bolbe flow by
means of a river into the Strymonic gulf; but it appears to have been also the
name of a place in this pass. In later times at all events there was a town called
Aulon, since it is mentioned as one of the Macedonian cities restored by Justinian.
(De Aedif. iv. 4.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited October 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
OLYNTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A hamlet in Macedonia near Olynthus
And there was another Scolus among the cities in the neighborhood of Olynthus bearing the same name as this village.(Strabo 9.2.3)
Kantharolethros (death to beetles), a place in Thrace near Olynthus
Near Olynthus is a hollow place which is called Cantharolethron from what happens there; for when the insect called the Cantharos, which is found all over the country, touches that place, it dies.(Strabo 7.30)
PEONIA (Ancient area) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
Antigoneia, a town of Macedonia in Paeonia, placed in the Tabular Itinerary between Stena and Stobi. (Scymnus, 631; Plin. iv. 10. s. 17; Ptolem. iii. 13. § 36.)
PETRA (Ancient city) PIERIA
There are three roads from lower Macedonia into Thessaly. (1) East of Mount Olympus along the coast to the mouth of the Peneius, and up that river to Gonnus through the pass of Tempe; (2) through the depression between western Olympus and the Pierian hills, called the pass of Petra, leading to the sources of the river Europus or Titaresius, and down that river through Perrhaebia; (3) making a much longer circuit round the mountains up the valley of the Haliacmon, and then turning south-east through a deep cleft in the Cambunian Mountains (the pass of Volustana or Servia) to the upper valley of the Titaresius.
This extract is from: A Commentary on Herodotus (ed. W. W. How, J. Wells). Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks.
PIERIA (Ancient area) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
Agassa or Agasae, a town in Pieria in Macedonia, near the river Mitys.
Livy, in relating the campaign of B.C. 169 against Perseus, says that the Roman
consul made three days' march beyond Dium, the first of which terminated at the
river Mitys, the second at Agassa, and the third at the river Ascordus. The last
appears to be the same as the Acerdos, which occurs in the Tabular Itinerary,
though not marked as a river. Leake supposes that the Mitys was the river of Katerina,
and that Acerdos was a tributary of the Haliacmon. (Liv. xliv. 7, xlv. 27; Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 423, seq.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited October 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A river of Pieria in Macedonia, which the Roman army, in the third campaign against
Perseus, under Q. Marcius, reached on the first day after their occupation of
Dium. (Liv. xliv. 7.) The Mitys was perhaps the river of Katerina. (Leake, North.
Greece, vol. iii. p. 424.)
SITHONIA (Ancient area) HALKIDIKI
Ampelos (Ampelos), a. promontory at the extremity of the peninsula Sithonia in
Chalcidice in Macedonia, called by Herodotus the Toronaean promontory. It appears
to correspond to the modern C Kartali, and Derrhis, which is nearer to the city
of Torone, to C. Dhrepano. (Herod. vii. 122; Step. B. s. v.; Ptol. iii. 13. §
12.)
VOLVI (Village) THESSALONIKI
Artemisium. A fortress in Macedonia, built by the emperor Justinian, at the distance of 40 miles from Thessalonica, and at the mouth of the river Rechius. (Procop. de Aedif. iv. 3.) The Rechius, as Tafel has shown, is the river, by which the waters of the Lake Bolbe flow into the sea, and which Thucydides (iv. 103) refers to, without mentioning its name. (Tafel, Thessalonica, pp. 14, seq., 272, seq.)
GIGONOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Gigonis Prom (Gigonis akra, Etym. Mag. s. v. Egonis, Ptol. iii. 13.
§ 23), a promontory on the coast of the Crossaea, in Macedonia, with a town Gigonus
(Gigonos, Steph. B.), to which the Athenian force, which had been employed against
Perdiccas, marched in three days from Beraea. (Thuc. i. 61.) It appears, from
the order of the names in Herodotus (vii. 123), that it was to the S. of Cape
Aeneium, the great Karaburnu; hence its situation was nearly that of Cape Apanomi.
(Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 452.)
PALIOURI (Village) HALKIDIKI
The Cape Kanistro in Paliouri is on the South Part of the Kassandra Peninsula.
Canastraeum (Kanastpaion Kanastron: Eth. Kanastraios: Cape Paliuri),
the extreme point of the peninsula of Pallene. (Herod. vii. 123; Thuc. iv. 110;
Strab. vii. p. 330; Apollon. Rhod. i. 599; Ptol. iii. 13; Liv. xliv. 11; Plin.
iv. 10; Pomp. Mel. ii. 3. § 1; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 156.)
LITI (Ancient city) THESSALONIKI
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