Listed 6 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "KARDITSA Prefecture THESSALIA" .
MITROPOLIS (Ancient city) KARDITSA
". . Chabrias, in command of the force dispatched by the Athenians,3 laid waste Hestiaeotis, and, fortifying its Metropolis, as it is called, which is situated on a naturally steep hill . . " Diodorus Siculus, Library
ARNI (Ancient city) KARDITSA
City of Thessaly.
ITHOMI (Ancient city) KARDITSA
Metropolis in earlier times was a joint settlement composed of three insignificant towns; but later several others were added to it, among which was Ithome.
MITROPOLIS (Ancient city) KARDITSA
It (Ithome) is a stronghold and is in reality a heap of stones; and it is situated between four strongholds, which lie in a square, as it were: Tricce, Metropolis, Pelinnaeum, and Gomphi (Strab. 9,5,17).
PIRASSIA (Ancient city) KARDITSA
Next he (Homer) speaks of the country subject to Eurypylus:
"and those who held the fountain Hypereia, and those who held Asterium and the white summits of Titanus."
...The fountain Hypereia is in the middle of the city of the Pheraeans, which
belonged to Eumelus. It is absurd, therefore, to assign the fountain to Eurypylus.
Titanus (White earth) was named from the fact in the case there; for the region
near Arne and Aphetae has white soil. Asterium, also, is not far from these.
ARNI (Ancient city) KARDITSA
Sixty years after the capture of Ilium the modern Boeotians were driven out of Arne by the Thessalians, and settled in the present Boeotia, the former Cadmeis; though there was a division of them there before, some of whom joined the expedition to Ilium.
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