Listed 5 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "KILKIS Prefecture GREECE" .
Perseus Project Index - Total results on 30/8/2001: 2
AMYDON (Ancient city) KILKIS
In the time of Strabo, Abydon was a deserted village, which was called Avydon, near the Axius river and was destroyed by the Argeadae (Strab. 7, fr. 20 & 20a).
IDOMENI (Ancient city) KILKIS
Polybius states that the distance from Maleae towards the north as far as the Ister is about ten thousand stadia, but Artemidorus corrects the statement in an appropriate manner by saying that from Maleae to Aegium is a journey of fourteen hundred stadia, and thence to Cyrrha a voyage of two hundred, and thence through Heracleia to Thaumaci a journey of five hundred, and then to Larisa and the Peneius three hundred and forty, and then through Tempe to the outlets of the Peneius two hundred and forty, and then to Thessaloniceia six hundred and sixty, and thence through Eidomene and Stobi and Dardanii to the Ister three thousand two hundred.
Advancing from Doberus, the Thracian host first invaded what had been once Philip's government, and took Idomene by assault, Gortynia, Atalanta, and some other places by negotiation, these last coming over for love of Philip's son, Amyntas, then with Sitalces.
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