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ALOROS (Ancient city) PELLA
Eth. Alorites. A town of Macedonia in the district Bottiaea, is placed
by Stephanus in the innermost recess of the Thermaic gulf. According to Scylax
it was situated between the Haliacmon and Lydias. Leake supposes it to have occupied
the site of Palea-hora, near Kapsokhori. The town is chiefly known on account
of its being the birthplace of Ptolemy, who usurped the Macedonian throne after
the murder of Alexander II., son of Amyntas, and who is usually called Ptolemaeus
Alorites.
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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