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DENTHELITIKI (Ancient area) KAVALA
Dentheletae (Dentheletai, Strab. vii. p. 318; Danthaletai, Steph.
B.; Denseletae, Cic. in Pis. 34; Plin. iv. 11), a Thracian people who occupied
a district called, after them, Dentheletica (Dantheletike, Ptol. iii. 11. § 8),
which seems to have bordered on that occupied by the Maedi towards the SE., near
the sources of the Strymon. Philip, son of Demetrius, in his fruitless expedition
to the summit of Mount Haemus after rejoining his camp in Maedica, made an incursion
into the country of the Dentheletae, for the sake of provision. (Liv. xl. 22.)
(Comp. Polyb. xxiv. 6; Dion Cass. li. 23 ; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p.
474.)
MEDIKI (Ancient country) KAVALA
Maedi (Maidoi, Maidoi, Thue. ii. 98; Polyb. x. 41), a powerful people
in the west of Thrace, dwelling near the sources of the Axius and Margus, and
upon the southern slopes of Mt. Scomius. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p.
472.) Strabo says that the Maedi bordered eastward on the Thunatae of Dardania
(vii. p. 316), and that the Axius flowed through their territory (vii. p. 331).
The latter was called Maedica (Maidike, Ptol. iii. 11. § 9; Liv. xxvi. 25, xl.
22). They frequently made incursions into Macedonia; but in B.C. 211, Philip V.
invaded their territory, and took their chief town Iamphorina, which is probably
represented by Vrania or Ivorina, in the upper valley of the Margus or Morava.
(Liv. xxvi. 25.) We also learn from Livy (xl. 22) that the same king traversed
their territory in order to reach the summit of Mt. Haemus; and that on his return
into Macedonia he received the submission of Petra, a fortress of the Maedi. Among
the other places in Maedica, we read of Phragandae (Liv. xxvi. 25) and Desudaba,
probably the modern Kumanovo, on one of the confluents of the upper Axius. (Liv.
xliv. 26.) The Maedi are said to have been of the same race as the Bithynians
in Asia, and were hence called Maedobithyni (Steph. B. s. v. Maidoi; Strab. vii.
p. 295). (Comp. Strab. vii. p. 316; Plin. iv. 11. s. 18.)
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ODOMANTIKI (Ancient area) KAVALA
Odomanti (Odomantoi, Herod. vii. 112; Thuc. ii. 101, v. 6; Steph.
B. s. v.; Odomantes, Plin. iv. 18), a Paeonian tribe, who occupied the district,
called after them, Odomantice (Odomantike, Ptol. iii. 13. § 31; Liv. xliv. 4;
Odomantis, Steph. B.) This tribe were settled upon the whole of the great mountain
Orbelus, extending along the NE. of the lower Strymonic plain, from about Meleniko
and Demirissar to Zikhnd inclusive, where they bordered on Pangaeus, the gold
and silver mines of which they worked with the Pieres and Satrae. (Herod. l. c.)
Secure in their inaccessible position, they defied Megabazus. (Herod. v. 16.)
The NW. portion of their territory lay to the right of Sitalces as he crossed
Mt. Cercine; and their general situation agrees with the description of Thucydides
(ii. 101), according to whom they dwelt beyond the Strymon to the N., that is
to say, to the N. of the Lower Strymon, where, alone, the river takes such a course
to the E. as to justify the expression. Cleon invited Polles, their chieftain,
to join him with as many Thracian mercenaries as could be levied. (Thuc. v. 6;
Aristoph. Acharn. 156, 164; Suid. s. v. apotethriaken; Leake, Northern Greece,
vol. iii. pp. 210, 306, 465.)
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PAGGAIO (Mountain) KAVALA
Odonianti, a Thracian or Paeonian tribe inhabiting the range of Pangaeum (if the reading be right): Hdt. 5.16, Hdt. 7.112
Satrae SATRAE (Satrai, Herod. vii. 110--112), a Thracian people who occupied a portion of the range of the Pangaeus,between the Nestus and the Strymon. Herodotus states that they were the only Thracian tribe who had always preserved their freedom; a fact for which he accounts by the nature of their country,--a mountainous region, covered with forests and snow--and by their great bravery. They alone of the Thracians did not follow in the train of Xerxes, when marching towards Greece. The Satrae were in possession of an oracle of Dionysus, situated among the loftiest mountain peaks, and the interpreters of which were taken from among the Bessi,--a circumstance which has suggested the conjecture that the Satrae were merely a clan of the Bessi,--a notion which is rendered more probable by the fact Republic. that Herodotus is the only ancient writer who mentions them; whereas the Bessi are repeatedly spoken of. We may infer from Pliny's expression, Bessorum multa nomina (iv. 11. s. 18), that the Bessi were divided into many distinct clans. Herodotus says that to the Satrae belonged the principal part of the gold and silver mines which then existed in the Pangaeus.
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Sapei (Sapaioi or Sapaioi), a Thracian people, occupying the southern portion of the Pangaeus, in the neighbourhood of Abdera. (Strab. xii. p. 549.) In this passage, however, Strabo calls them Sapae (Sapai), and assumes their identity with the Sinti, which in another place (x. p. 457) he treats as a mere matter of conjecture. The Via Egnatia ran through their country, and especially through a narrow and difficult defile called by Appian (B.C. iv. 87, 106) the pass of the Sapaei, and stated by him to be 18 miles from Philippi; so that it must have been nearly midway between Neapolis and Abdera. The Sapaei are mentioned, and merely mentioned, by Herodotus (vii. 110) and by Pliny (iv. 11. s. 18). Their town is called Sapaica (Sapaike) by Steph. B. (s. v.).
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Satrae (Satrai, Herod. vii. 110-112), a Thracian people who occupied a portion of the range of the Pangaeus, between the Nestus and the Strymon. Herodotus states that they were the only Thracian tribe who had always preserved their freedom; a fact for which he accounts by the nature of their country, -a mountainous region, covered with forests and snow- and by their great bravery. They alone of the Thracians did not follow in the train of Xerxes, when marching towards Greece. The Satrae were in possession of an oracle of Dionysus, situated among the loftiest mountain peaks, and the interpreters of which were taken from among the Bessi, -a circumstance which has suggested the conjecture that the Satrae were merely a clan of the Bessi, -a notion which is rendered more probable by the fact Republic. that Herodotus is the only ancient writer who mentions them; whereas the Bessi are repeatedly spoken of. We may infer from Pliny's expression, Bessorum multa nomina (iv. 11. s. 18), that the Bessi were divided into many distinct clans. Herodotus says that to the Satrae belonged the principal part of the gold and silver mines which then existed in the Pangaeus.
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ELEOHORI BEACH (Beach) KAVALA
PAGGAIO (Mountain) KAVALA
Orescii (Orrheskioi), a people of Macedonia or Thrace, known only
from their coins. These have been by some writers referred to the Orestae; but
it is more probable, as suggested by Leake, that they were one of the Thracian
tribes who worked the silver mines of Pangaeum; a circumstance which will account
for our finding silver coins of large size and in considerable numbers struck
by a people so obscure that their name is not mentioned by any ancient author
(Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 213, Numismata Hellenica, p. 81.) The coins
in question) one of which is annexed, closely resemble in style and fabric those
of, the Bisaltae and Edoni in the same neighbourhood.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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