Listed 17 sub titles with search on: Various locations for wider area of: "MAKEDONIA EAST & THRACE Region GREECE" .
DORISKOS (Ancient city) ALEXANDROUPOLI
Serrheum: a promontory in Thrace near Doriscus: Hdt. 7.59
DRAMA (Town) MAKEDONIA EAST & THRACE
Daravescus of the Roman period is identified with Drama
EVROS (River) MAKEDONIA EAST & THRACE
Agrianes (Agrianes: Ergina), a small river in Thrace, and one of the tributaries of the Hebrus. (Herod. iv. 89.) It flows from Mount Hieron in a NW. direction, till it joins the Hebrus. Some have supposed it to be the same as the Erigon, which, however, is impossible, the latter being a tributary of the Axius.
FILIPPI (Ancient city) KAVALA
Gangas, Gangites (Gangas, Gangites, Appian, B.C. iv. 106), a river
of Macedonia, which takes its rise at and flows round Philippi; after its confluence
with the Zygactes the united streams bore the name of the Angites (Anghista),
which was so called from the branch at Philippi. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol.
iii. p. 225.) It was by this river side (Acts, xvi. 13), the fountains of which
gave the name to the city, before the time of Philip of Macedon -Crenides, the
Place of Fountains,- that the Proseucha was situated (in consequence of the ablutions
which were connected with the worship) in which the Gospel was first preached
within the limits of Europe. (Comp. Coneybeare and Howson, Life and Epistles of
St. Paul, vol. i. p. 316.)
MAKRI (Small town) ALEXANDROUPOLI
After Maroneis one comes to the city Orthagoria and to the region about Serrhium (a rough coastingvoyage) (Strabo fr.47). All the ships had now arrived at Doriscus, and the captains at Xerxes' command brought them to the beach near Doriscus, where stands the Samothracian city of Sane, and Zone; at the end is Serreum, a well-known headland. This country was in former days possessed by the Cicones. (Herodt. 7.59.1)
MAXIMIANOUPOLI (Ancient city) RODOPI
Stabulum Diomedis (Itin. Ant. p. 331; It. Hier. p. 603), a place on
the coast of Thrace, on the Via Egnatia, 18,000 paces, according to Itin. Ant.,
12,000, according to It. Hier., from Porsula, or Maximianopolis; probably the
same as Pliny (iv. 11. s. 18) calls Tirida: Oppidum fuit Tirida, Dio medis equorum
stabulis dirum. This Diomedes was king of the Bistones in Thrace, and was in the
habit of throwing strangers to be devoured by his savage horses, till at length
he himself was punished in the same way by Hercules. (Mela, ii. 2. § 8.) Lapie
places it near the modern Iassikeni.
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
NEAPOLIS (Ancient city) KAVALA
Acontisma a station in Macedonia on the coast and on the Via Egnatia, 8 or 9 miles eastward of Neapolis, is placed by Leake near the end of the passes of the Sapaei, which were formed by the mountainous coast stretching eastward from Kavala. Tafel considers it to be identical with Christopolis and the modern Kavala. (Amm. Marc. xxvii. 4; It. Ant. and Hierocl.; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 180; Tafel, De Viae Egnatiae Parte Orient. p. 13, seq.)
SAMOTHRAKI (Island) MAKEDONIA EAST & THRACE
THASSOS (Island) MAKEDONIA EAST & THRACE
A place in Thasos: Hdt. 6.47
VISTONIDA LAKE (Lake) XANTHI
Stabulum Diomedis (Itin. Ant. p. 331; It. Hier. p. 603), a place on the coast
of Thrace, on the Via Egnatia, 18,000 paces, according to Itin. Ant., 12,000,
according to It. Hier., from Porsula, or Maximianopolis; probably the same as
Pliny (iv. 11. s. 18) calls Tirida: Oppidum fuit Tirida, Dio medis equorum stabulis
dirum. This Diomedes was king of the Bistones in Thrace, and was in the habit
of throwing strangers to be devoured by his savage horses, till at length he himself
was punished in the same way by Hercules. (Mela, ii. 2. § 8.) Lapie places it
near the modern Iassikeni.
MARONIA (Ancient city) RODOPI
Serrheum or Serrhium (Serrhion, Dem. p. 85, R.; Serrheion, Herod.
vii. 59; Steph. B. s. v.), a promontory and town on the southern coast of Thrace,
now Cape Makri. It lay to the west of Maroneia, and opposite to the island of
Samothrace. It is repeatedly mentioned by Demosthenes (pp. 85, 114, 133, R.),
as having been taken by Philip, contrary to his engagements with the Athenians;
and Livy (xxxi. 16) states that it was one of the Thracian towns captured by Philip
V. in the year B.C. 200. (Plin. iv. 11. s. 18; Mela, ii. 2.) According to Stephanus
Byz. (l. c.) a town on the island of Samothrace bore the same name.
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
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