Listed 4 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "SOUTH PELION Municipality MAGNESSIA" .
AFETES (Ancient port) SOUTH PELION
In Magnesia, on the Pagasaean gulf, station of Xerxes' fleet, storm and shipwreck there, in Thessaly, Herakles left by the Argonauts at:
Nearby is Aphetae also, so named as being the "apheterium" of the Argonauts.
OLIZON (Ancient city) SOUTH PELION
Demetrias, which is on the sea between Nelia and Pagasae, was founded by Demetrius Poliorcetes, who named it after himself, settling in it the inhabitants of the nearby towns, Nelia and Pagasae and Ormenium, and also Rhizus, Sepias, Olizon, Boebe, and Iolcus, which are now villages belonging to Demetrias.
SIPIAS (Ancient city) SOUTH PELION
Iolcus is situated above the sea seven stadia from Demetrias. Demetrias, which is on the sea between Nelia and Pagasae, was founded by Demetrius Poliorcetes, who named it after himself, settling in it the inhabitants of the nearby towns, Nelia and Pagasae and Ormenium, and also Rhizus, Sepias, Olizon, Boebe, and Iolcus, which are now villages belonging to Demetrias (Strab. 9,5,15).
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