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ΣΤΟΒΟΙ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ
Stoboi. A town in the NW. of Paeonia in Macedonia, which appears to
have been a place of some importance under the Macedonian kings, although probably
it had been greatly reduced by the incursions of the Dardani, when Philip had
an intention of founding a new city near it in memory of a victory over these
troublesome neighbours, and which he proposed to call Perseis, in honour of his
son. At the Roman conquest, Stobi was made the place of deposit of salt, for the
supply of the Dardani, the monopoly of which was given to the Third Macedonia.
In the time of Pliny (iv. 17) Stobi was a municipal town, but probably as late
as the time of Heliogabalus it was made a colonia. When about A.D. 400 Macedonia
was under a consular, Stobi became the chief town of Macedonia II or Salutaris
(Marquardt, in Becker's Rom. Alter. vol. iii. pt. i. p. 118). According to the
Tabular Itinerary it stood 47 M.P. from Heracleia of Lyncus, which was in the
Via Egnatia, and 55 M. P. from Tauriana, and was therefore probably in the direct
road from Heracleia to Serdica. The position must have been therefore on the Erigon,
10 or 12 miles above the junction of that river with the Axins, a situation which
agrees with that of Livy, who describes it as belonging to Deuriopus of Paeonia,
which was watered by the Erigon. Stobi was a point from which four roads issued.
(Peut. Tab.) One proceeded NW. to Scupi, and from thence to Naissus on the great
SE. route from Viminacium on the Danube to Byzantium; the second NE. to Serdica,
1000 M. P. SE. of Naissus on the same route; the third SE. to Thessalonica; and
the fourth SW. to Heracleia, the last forming a communication with that central
point on the Via Egnatia leading through Stobi from all the places on the three
former routes. In A.D. 479 Stobi was captured by Theodoric the Ostrogoth (Malch.
Philadelph. Exc. de Leg. Rom. pp. 78 - 86, ap. Muller, Fragm. Hist. Graec. vol.
iv. p. 125); and in the Bulgarian campaign of A.D. 1014, it was occupied by Basil
II. and the Byzantine army (Stopeion, Cedren. p. 709). The geography of the basin
of the Erigon in which Stobi was situated is so imperfectly known that there is
a difficulty in identifying its site: in Kiepert's map (Europaische Turkei) the
ruins of Stobi are marked to the W. of Demirkapi, or the pass of the Iron Gate.
(Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. pp. 306, 440.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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