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KAIMAKTSALAN (Ski centre) EDESSA
In the massif of Voras and at an altitude of 2040 to 2524 metres, the slopes of the Ski Resort by the same name are developed.
The resort has been in operation since 1995. The resort is situated at a distance of about 45 km northwest of Edessa and 140 km from Thessaloniki. The long duration of snow covering, the unique natural scenery, but also the possibility of accommodation in traditional villages, which have preserved their traditional colors, has contributed to the quick expansion of their reputation on national level and has led to the ongoing developing tourist movement in the region.
The Voras Ski Resort (Kaimakstsalan) has 6 lifts, which provide access to 13 ski-slopes of several difficulty degrees, while a Snowmobile slope has also been shaped, as well as a Snowboard Fun park to satisfy the most demanding skiers. The wider region is available for mountain ski, providing the possibility of rambling in interesting forest paths.
Experienced trainers are participating in the operation of ski and snowboard schools, offering an enjoyable contact with the exciting winter sports to inexperienced skiers, while the little stores of renting-selling equipment on the ground-floor of the chalet give everyone interested the possibility of obtaining the necessary equipment for a comfortable jaunt in the snow.
In the area of the chalet and at an altitude of 2040 m, a guesthouse operates with a restaurant and an ouzo-tavern, while at 2100 m in a pure-white frozen landscape; the snowbar creates a warm and friendly atmosphere for the relaxation and pleasure of skiers.
This text (extract) has been cited in October 2003 from the Pella Prefecture Tourism Committee tourist pamphlet.
EMMANOUIL PAPPAS (Municipality) SERRES
MONI AGIOU DIONYSSIOU (Monastery) PIERIA
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SERRES (Municipality) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
STRYMONIKO (Municipality) SERRES
ECHEDOROS (Municipality) THESSALONIKI
NEOS MARMARAS (Small town) HALKIDIKI
PELLA (Prefecture) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
THESSALONIKI (Prefecture) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
AGIA PARASKEVI (Village) HALKIDIKI
AGIOS MAMAS (Village) HALKIDIKI
HALKIDIKI (Prefecture) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
KARITSA (Village) PIERIA
The history of Karitsa began almost 250 years ago. According to the resident’s testimonies and the existing official records (agreements with the Turks, lease contracts), we know that at that time some families, few at the beginning, settled permanently in this village, coming from Fteri. These first families were Gina' s, Kyrtego' s and Evangelou' s. In summer these same families used to return to Fteri with their flocks. These people urged the rest of the residents of Fteri to go down and to settle in the fertile land of Karitsa, at the foot of Olympus, next to the ancient Dion. Again according to resident' s testimonies, some families settled in other areas.
The village of was a Turkish ciflik at that time. The Turkish commander' s house was situated in the place where now D. Goulanta' s house is situated. The commander permitted them to cultivate some pieces of land and of course they were paying a large and unbearable levy (almost the 2/3 of the whole products). The "Koutsekia" (warehouses where there the taxes were gathered) were in the place where there is a square today. This taxation though brought about indignation to the residents who started thinking of ways to protest. Thus a team of 5 - 6 men who weir dressed in women' s clothes visited the commander whom they beat and terrified. At the same time the women and children of the village were stoning the house of the Turkish Aga. This was a clearly revolutionary act and its result was the Turks from the village of Karitsa. So, the place was left to the villagers. In 1918 with the royal decree 152/1918 the commune of Dion was recognized and it was consisted of the communes of Karitsa (780 residents), Malathria and Kalivia of Malathria. Karitsa became a separate commune in 1961 r.d. 35/30-12-61 (1598 residents)
Nowadays, Karitsa along with Dion, Vrontou, Saint Spiridonas, Kontariotisa and New Efesos compose the unified municipality of Dion which has Kontariotisa as its seat. 2400 residents live permanently in Karitsa and it' s one of the most developed villages of the prefecture. The residents are wanly engaged in agriculture and less in stockbreeding, commerce and other occupations. In the fields of Karitsa first quality tobacco is produced and it is its main cultivation. There are also produced corn, beetroot, wheat and kiwi fruits. At the same time the residents of Karitsa are active in other fields too (culture, athletics, etc).
-The traditions and the Vlahs customs exist ever these days despite the difficulties of our age.
-Today in Karitsa there is a community office (Tel 53345) and agrarian medical center.
-There is an agrarian association, which numbers almost 400 members.
-There is a two-post Kindergarten with 50 infants and an eight-post Primary school with 150 pupils.
-The patron saint of the village is Saint Dimitrios to whom the central church is dedicated. Every summer, on the 7th of July, there is a big fair in the honor of Saint Kiriaki.
-The sport association has developed many activities too. The football team, AE KARITSA, was the champion in the last year' s championship and this year it takes part in the D-class of the national teams.
Someone can get to Karitsa through the provincial road Katerini - Dion (12 Km) and through the highway from the crossing of Gritsa (7 Km).
WHAT CAN SOMEONE SEE IN KARITSA
- A beautiful site which every can visit is the area of Saint Vasilios, at the foot of Mt Olympus. The view of the god' s mountain from this site is magnificent. The site is suitable for relaxation, recreation and plays.
- Someone can also visit the archeological site of the ancient Dion, even on foot (its only 1 Km away).
- Agia Kori is also worth visiting. The pilgrimage and the site are in the nearby village of Vrontou. The beauty of the place is unique. The Holy water of Agia Kori is situated in the depths of a ravine.
- Lastly one can organize very nice excursions on Olympus. There are hotels in the neighboring village of Dion.
This text is cited Aug 2002 from the URL bellow, of the Elementary School of Karitsa at Pieria.
NEA KALLIKRATIA (Small town) HALKIDIKI
NEA MOUDANIA (Small town) HALKIDIKI
NEA POTIDEA (Small town) HALKIDIKI
THESSALONIKI (Town) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
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VORMISKOS (Ancient city) THESSALONIKI
Bromiskos was in the territory of ancient Mygdonia. According to the tradition, Euripides was torn to pieces by dogs in this city.
AFYTIS (Ancient city) KASSANDRA
Aphutis, also Aphute, Aphutos: Eth. Aphutaios, more early Aphutieus,
Aphuteus, Aphutesios: A/thyto. A town on the eastern side of the peninsula Pallene,
in Macedonia, a little below Potidaea. (Herod. vii. 123: Thuc. i. 64; Strab.)
Xenophon (Hell. v. 3. § 19) says that it possessed a temple of Dionysius, to which
the Spartan king Agesipolis desired to be removed before his death; but it was
more celebrated for its temple of Ammon, whose head appears on its coins. (Plut.
Lys. 20; Pans. iii. 18. § 3; Steph. B. s. v.)
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AGION OROS (Mountain) HALKIDIKI
Athos (Athon, Ep. Athoos, gen. Athoo: Eth. Athoites), the lofty mountain at the
extremity of the long peninsula, running out into the sea from Chalcidice in Macedonia,
between the Singitic gulf and the Aegaean. This peninsula was properly called
Acte (Akte, Thuc. iv. 109), but the name of Athos was also given to it, as well
as to the mountain. (Herod. vii. 22.) The peninsula, as well as the mountain,
is now called the Holy Mountain (Hagion Oros, Monte Santo), from the great number
of monasteries and chapels with which it is covered. There are 20 of these monasteries,
most of which were founded during the Byzantine empire, and some of them trace
their origin to the time of Constantine the Great. Each of the different nations
belonging to the Greek Church, has one or more monasteries of its own; and the
spot is visited periodically by pilgrims from Russia, Servia, Bulgaria, as well
as from Greece and Asia Minor. No female, even of the animal kind, is permitted
to enter the peninsula.
According to Pliny (iv. 10. s. 17. § 37, Sillig), the length of the
peninsula is 75 (Roman) miles, and the circumference 150 (Roman) miles. Its real
length is 40 English miles, and its average breadth about four miles. The general
aspect of the peninsula is described in the following terms by a modern traveller:--The
peninsula is rugged, being intersected by innumerable ravines. The ground rises
almost immediately and rather abruptly from the isthmus at the northern end to
about 300 feet, and for the first twelve miles maintains a table-land elevation
of about 600 feet, for the most part beautifully wooded. At this spot the peninsula
is narrowed into rather less than two miles in breadth. It immediately afterwards
expands to its average breadth of about four miles, which it retains to its southern
extremity. From this point, also, the land becomes mountainous rather than hilly,
two of the heights reaching respectively 1700 and 1200 feet above the sea. Four
miles farther south, on the eastern slope of the mountain ridge, and at a nearly
equal distance from the east and west shores, is situated the town of Karyes picturesquely
placed amidst vineyards and gardens. Immediately to the southward of Karyes the
ground rises to 2200 feet, whence a rugged broken country, covered with a forest
of dark-leaved foliage, extends to the foot of the mountain, which rears itself
in solitary magnificence, an insulated cone of white limestone, rising abruptly
to the height of 6350 feet above the sea. Close to the cliffs at the southern
extremity, we learn from Captain Copeland's late survey, no bottom was found with
60 fathoms of line. (Lieut. Webber Smith, in Journal of Royal Geogr. Soc. vol.
vii. p. 65.) The lower bed of the mountain is composed of gneiss and argillaceous
slate, and the upper part of grey limestone, more or less inclined to white. (Sibthorp,
in Walpole's Travels &c. p. 40.)
Athos is first mentioned by Homer, who represents Hera as resting
on its summit on her flight from Olympus to Lemnos. (Il. xiv. 229.) The name,
however, is chiefly memorable in history on account of the canal which Xerxes
cut through the isthmus,, connecting the peninsula with Chalcidice. (Herod. vii.
23, seq.) This canal was cut by Xerxes for the passage of his fleet, in order
to escape the gales and high seas, which sweep around the promontory, and which
had wrecked the fleet of Mardonius in B.C. 492. The cutting of this canal has
been rejected as a falsehood by many writers, both ancient and modern; and Juvenal
(x. 174) speaks of it as a specimen of Greek mendacity: creditor olim Velificatus
Athos, et quidquid Graecia mendax Audet in historia.
Its existence, however, is not only attested by Herodotus, Thucydides, and other
ancient writers, but distinct traces of it have been discovered by modern travellers.
The modern name of the isthmus is Provlaka, evidently the Romaic form of Proaulax,
the canal in front of the peninsula of Athos. The best description of the present
condition of the canal is given by Lieut. Wolfe :--The canal of Xerxes is still
most distinctly to be traced all the way across the isthmus from the Gulf of Monte
Santo (the ancient Singitic Gulf) to the Bay of Erso in the Gulf of Contessa,
with the exception of about 200 yards in the middle, where the ground bears no
appearance of having ever been touched. But as there is no doubt of the whole
canal having been excavated by Xerxes, it is probable that the central part was
afterwards filled up, in order to allow a more ready passage into and out of the
peninsula. In many places the canal is still deep, swampy at the bottom, and filled
with rushes and other aquatic plants: the rain and small springs draining down
into it from the adjacent heights afford, at the Monte Santo end, a good watering-place
for shipping; the water (except in very dry weather) runs out in a good stream.
The distance across is 2500 yards, which agrees very well with the breadth of
twelve stadia assigned by Herodotus. The width of the canal appears to have been
about 18 or 20 feet; the level of the earth nowhere exceeds 15 feet above the
sea; the soil is a light clay. It is on the whole a very remarkable isthmus, for
the land on each side (but more especially to the westward) rises abruptly to
an elevation of 800 to 1000 feet. (Penny Cyclopaedia, vol. iii. p. 23.)
About 1 1/2 mile north of the canal was Acanthus, and on the isthmus,
immediately south of the canal, was Sane, probably the same as the later Uranopolis.
In the peninsula itself there were five cities, Dium, Olophyxus, Acrotihoum, Thyssus,
Cleonae, which are described under their respective names. To these five cities,
which are mentioned by Herodotus, Thucydides and Strabo (vii. p. 331), Scylax
(s. v. Makedonia) adds Charadriae, and Pliny Palaeorium and Apollonia, the inhabitants
of the latter being named Macrobii. The extremity of the peninsula, above which
Mt. Athos rises abruptly, was called Nymphaeum (Numphaion), now Cape St. George
(Strab. vii. p. 330; Ptol. iii. 13. § 11.) The peninsula was originally inhabited
by Tyrrheno-Pelasgians, who continued to form a large part of the population in
the Greek cities of the peninsula even in the time of the Peloponnesian war (Thuc.
l. c.). (Respecting the peninsula in general see Leake, Northern Greece, vol.
iii. p. 114; Bowen, Mount Athos, Thessaly, and Epirus, London, 1852, p. 51, seq.;
Lieuts. Smith and Wolfe, Sibthorp, ll. cc.)
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AKANTHOS (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Akanthos: Eth. Akanthios: Erissο. Α town on the E. side of the isthmus, which
connects the peninsula of Acte with Chalcidice, and about 1 1/2 mile above the
canal of Xerxes. (Athos) It was founded by a colony from Andros, and became a
place of considerable importance. Xerxes stopped here on his march into Greece
(B.C. 480) and praised the inhabitants for the zeal which they displayed in his
service. Acanthus surrendered to Brasidas B.C. 424, and its independence was shortly
afterwards guaranteed in the treaty of peace made between Athens and Sparta. The
Acanthians maintained their independence against the Olynthians, but eventually
became subject to the kings of Macedonia. In the war between the Romans and Philip
(B.C. 200) Acanthus was taken and plundered by the fleet of the republic. Strabo
and Ptolemy erroneously place Acanthus on the Singitic gulf, but there can be
no doubt that the town was on the Strymonic gulf, as is stated by Herodotus and
other authorities: the error may have perhaps arisen from the territory of Acanthus
having stretched as far as the Singitic gulf. At Erisso, the site of Acanthus,
there are the ruins of a large ancient mole, advancing in a curve into the sea,
and also, on the N. side of the hill upon which the village stands, some remains
of an ancient wall, constructed of square blocks of grey granite. On the coin
of Acanthus figured below is a lion killing a bull, which confirms the account
of Herodotus (vii. 125), that on the march of Xerxes from Acanthus to Therme,
lions seized the camels which carried the provisions.
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ALIAKMON (River) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
Haliacmon, Fl. (Haliakmon, Hesiod, Th. 341; Herod. vii. 127; Scyl.
p. 26; Strab. vii. p. 330; Ptol. iii. 13. § § 15, 18; Caesar B.C. iii. 36; Liv.
xlii. 53; Plin. iv. 10; Claud. B. Get. 179: Vistritza; Turkish, Inje-Kara), a
river of Macedonia, rising in the chain of mountains to which Ptolemy gave the
name of Canalovii. According to Caesar, it formed the line of demarcation between
Macedonia and Thessaly.
In the upper part of its course it takes a SE. direction through Elymiotis,
which it watered; and then, continuing to the NE., formed the boundary between
Pieria, Eordaea, and Emathia, till it discharged itself into the Thermaic gulf.
In the time of Herodotus the Haliacmon was joined by the Lydias, or discharge
of the lake of Pella; but a change has now taken place in the course of the latter,
which joins not the Haliacmon, but the Axius. The Haliacmon itself appears to
have moved its lower course to the E. of late, so that, in time, perhaps all the
three rivers may unite before they join the sea.
The Vistritza, although betraying a Slavonic modification in its termination,
may possibly be a corruption of Astraeus (Aelian, H. A. xv. 1), which was perhaps
the ordinary appellation of the river below the gorges of Beraea, as Haliacmon
was that above them; in the same manner as Injekara and Vistritza are used in
the present day.
Its banks are now confined by artificial dykes to restrain its destructive
inundations, and the river itself is noted at Verria for guliani of immense size:
the same fish grows to enormous dimensions in the lake at Kastoria, which is one
of the sources of the Vistritza. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. i. pp. 303, 316,
vol. iii. pp. 292, 437.)
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ALMOPIA (Ancient area) PELLA
Almopia (Almopia), a district in Macedonia inhabited by the Almopes
(Almopes), is said to have been one of the early conquests of the Argive colony
of the Temenidae. Leake supposes it to be the same country now called Moglena,
which bordered upon the ancient Edessa to the NE. Ptolemy assigns to the Almopes
three towns, Horma (Horma), Europus (Europos), and Apsalus (Apsalos (Thuc. ii.
99; Steph. .)B. s. v.; Lycophr. 1238; Ptol. iii. 13. §24; Leake, Northern Greece,
vol. iii. p. 444
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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.
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AMFAXITIS (Ancient area) KILKIS
Amphaxitis (Amphaxitis), the maritime part of Mygdonia in Macedonia, on the left
bank of the Axius, which, according to Strabo, separated Bottiaea from Amphaxitis.
The name first occurs in Polybius. No town of this name is mentioned by ancient
writers, though the Amphaxii are found on coins. (Pol. v. 97; Strab. p. 330; Ptol.
iii. 13. § § 10,14; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 449.)
AMFIPOLIS (Ancient city) SERRES
Eth. Amphipolites, Amphipolites: Adj. Amphipolitanus (Just. xiv. sub
fin.). A town in Macedonia, situated upon an eminence on the left or eastern bank
of the Strymon, just below its egress from the lake Cercinitis, at the distance
of 25 stadia, or about three miles from the sea. (Thuc. iv. 102.) The Strymon
flowed almost round the town, whence its name Amphi-polis. Its position is one
of the most important in this part of Greece. It stands in a pass, which traverses
the mountains bordering the Strymonic gulf; and it commands the only easy communication
from the coast of that gulf into the great Macedonian plains. In its vicinity
were the gold and silver mines: of Mount Pangaeus, and large forests of ship-timber.
It was originally called Ennea Hodoi, or Nine-Ways (Ennea hodol), from the many
roads which met at this place; and it belonged to the Edonians, a Thracian people.
Aristagoras of Miletus first attempted to colonize it, but was cut off with his
followers by the Edonians, B.C. 497. (Thuc. l. c.; Herod. v. 126.) The next attempt
was made by the Athenians, with a body of 10,000 colonists, consisting of Athenian
citizens and allies; but they met with the same fate as Aristagoras, and were
all destroyed by the Thracians at Drabescus, B.C. 465. (Thuc. i. 100, iv. 102;
Herod. ix. 75.) So valuable, however, was the site, that the Athenians sent out
another colony in B.C. 437 under Agnon, the son of Nicias, who drove the Thracians
out of Nine-Ways, and founded the city, to which he gave the name of Amphipolis.
On three sides the city was defended by the Strymon; on the other side Agnon built
a wall across, extending from one part of the river to the other. South of the
town was a bridge, which formed the great means of communication between Macedonia
and Thrace. The following plan will illustrate the preceding account. (Thuc. iv.
102.)
Amphipolis soon became an important city, and was regarded by the
Athenians as the jewel of their empire. In B.C. 424 it surrendered to the Lacedaemonian
general Brasidas, without offering any resistance. The historian Thucydides, who
commanded the Athenian fleet off the coast, arrived in time from the island of
Thasos to save Eion, the port of Amphipolis, at the mouth of the Strymon, but
too late to prevent Amphipolis itself from falling into the hands of Brasidas.
(Thuc. iv. 103-107.) The loss of Amphipolis caused both indignation and alarm
at Athens, and led to the banishment of Thucydides. In B.C. 422 the Athenians
sent a large force, under the command of Cleon, to attempt the recovery of the
city. This expedition completely failed; the Athenians were defeated with considerable
loss, but Brasidas as well as Cleon fell in the battle. The operations of the
two commanders are detailed at length by Thucydides, and his account is illustrated
by the masterly narrative of Grote. (Thuc. v. 6-11; Grote, Hist. of Greece, vol.
vi. p. 634, seq.)
From this time Amphipolis continued independent of Athens. According
to the treaty made between the Athenians and Lacedaemonians in B.C. 421, it was
to have been restored to Athens; but its inhabitants refused to surrender to their
former masters, and the Lacedaemonians were unable to compel them to do so, even
if they had been so inclined. Amphipolis afterwards became closely allied with
Olynthus, and with the assistance of the latter was able to defeat the attempts
of the Athenians under Timotheus to reduce the place in B.C. 360. Philip, upon
his accession (359) declared Amphipolis a free city; but in the following year
(358) he took the place by assault, and annexed it permanently to his dominions.
It continued to belong to the Mace donians, till the conquest of their country
by the Romans in B.C. 168. The Romans made it a free city, and the capital of
the first of the four districts, into which they divided Macedonia. (Dem. in Aristocr.
p. 669; Diod. xvi. 3. 8; Liv. xlv. 29; Plin. iv. 10.)
The deity chiefly worshipped at Amphipolis appears to have been Artemis
Tauropolos or Brauronia (Diod. xviii. 4; Liv. xliv. 44), whose head frequently
appears on the coins of the city, and the ruins of whose temple in the first century
of the Christian era are mentioned in an epigram of Antipater of Thessalonica.
(Anth. Pal. vol. i. no. 705.) The most celebrated of the natives of Amphipolis
was the grammarian Zoilus.
Amphipolis was situated on the Via Egnatia. It has been usually stated,
on the authority of an anonymous Greek geographer, that it was called Chrysopolis
under the Byzantine empire; but Tafel has clearly shown, in the works cited below,
that this is a mistake, and that Chrysopolis and Amphipolis were two different
places. Tafel has also pointed out that in the middle ages Amphipolis was called
Popolia. Its site is now occupied by a village called Neokhorio, in Turkish Jeni-Keui,
or New-Town. There are still a few remains of the ancient town; and both Leake
and Cousinery found among them a curious Greek inscription, written in the Ionic
dialect, containing a sentence of banishment against two of their citizens, Philo
and Stratocles. The latter is the name of one of the two envoys sent from Amphipolis
to Athens to request the assistance of the latter against Philip, and he is therefore
probably the same person as the Stratocles mentioned in the inscription.
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AMYDON (Ancient city) KILKIS
(Amudon). A town in Macedonia on the Axius, from which Pyraechmes
led the Paeonians to the assistance of Troy. The place is called Abydon by Suidas
and Stephanus B.
ANTIGONIA (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Antigonea, Eth. Antigoneus, Antigonensis. A town of Macedonia in the district
Crusis in Chalcidice, placed by Livy between Aeneia and Pallene. (Liv. xliv. 10.)
It is called by Ptolemy (iii. 13. § 38) Psaphara (Psaphara) probably in order
to distinguish it from Antigoneia in Paeonia.
APOLLONIA (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
(Eth. Apolloniates, Apolloniates, Apollinas,--atis, Apolloniensis.Polighero).
The chief town of Chalcidice in Macedonia, situated N. of Olynthus, and a little
S. of the Chalcidian mountains. That this Apollonia is a different place from
No. 5, appears from Xenophon, who describes the Chalcidian Apollonia as distant
10 or 12 miles from Olynthus. (Xen. Hell. v. 12 § 1, seq.) It was probably this
Apollonia Which struck the beautiful Chalcidian coins, bearing on the obverse
the head of Apollo, and on the reverse his lyre, with the legend Chalkideon.
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APOLLONIA (Ancient city) THESSALONIKI
Eth. Apolloniates, Apolloniates, Apollinas,-atis, Apolloniensis (Pollina),
a town of Mygdonia in Macedonia, S. of the lake Bolbe (Athen. viii. p. 334, e.),
and N. of the Chalcidian mountains, on the road from Thessalonica to Amphipolis,
as we learn from the Acts of the Apostles (xvii. 1) and the Itineraries. (Anton.
Itin. pp. 320, 330; Itin. Hierosol. p. 605; Tab. Peuting.) Pliny (iv. 10. s. 17.
§ 38) mentions this Apollonia.
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ARETHOUSSA (Ancient city) THESSALONIKI
Arethusa (Arethousa: Eth. Arethousios), a town of Bisaltia in Macedonia, in the pass of Aulon, a
little N. of Bromiscus, and celebrated for containing the sepulchre of Euripides.
(Amm. Marc. xxvii. 4; Itin. Hierosol. p. 604; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii.
p. 170.) We learn from Scylax (c. 67) that it was an ancient Greek colony. It
was probably founded by the Chalcidians of Euboea, who may have called it after
the celebrated fountain in the neighbourhood of their city. Stephanus B. (s. v.)
erroneously calls it a city of Thrace. It was either from this place or from Bromiscus
that the fortified town of Rentine arose, which is frequently mentioned by the
Byzantine historians. (Tafel, Thessalonica, p. 68.)
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ARGILOS (Ancient city) SERRES
Argilus (Argilos: Eth. Argilios), a city of Macedonia in the district
Bisaltia, between Amphipolis and Bromiscus. It was founded by a colony from Andros.
(Thuc. iv. 103.) It appears from Herodotus (vii. 115) to have been a little to
the right of the route of the army of Xerxes, and must therefore have been situated
a little inland. Its territory must have been extended as far as the right bank
of the Strymon, since Cerdylium, the mountain immediately opposite Amphipolis,
belonged to Argilus. (Thuc. v. 6.) The Argilians readily joined Brasidas in B.C.
424, on account of their jealousy of the important city of Amphipolis, which the
Athenians had founded in their neighbourhood. (Thuc. iv. 103; comp. Steph. B.
s. v.; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. , p. 171.)
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ASSA (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
Eth. Assaios. A town of Chalcidice, in Macedonia, on the Singitic
gulf. (Herod. vii. 122.) It is probably the same town as the Assera of Theopompus
(Steph. B. s. v. Assera), and the Cassera of Pliny (iv. 10), its territory being
called Assyrytis (Assurutis) by Aristotle (Hist. An. iii. 12). Here was a river
which was called the Psuchros from its coldness. (Aristot. l. c.) Leake places
Assa at the head of the Singitic gulf, at some ruins called Paleokastro, about
midway, by land, between Erisso and Vurvuri.
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AXIOS (River) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
Axius: (Axios, Axios), the principal river of Macedonia, and the eastern
boundary of the kingdom before the reign of Philip, rises in Mt. Scardus between
Dardania and Dalmatia, a little NW. of Scupi. It flows in a south-easterly direction
through Macedonia, and, after receiving the Erigon and Astycus and passing by
Pella, falls into the Thermaic gulf. The Lydias also now flows into the Axius,
but in the time of Herodotus (vii. 127) the former river joined the Haliacmon.
The Axius has frequently changed its course. In earlier times it flowed into the
sea between Chalastra and Thessalonica. (Strab. vii. p. 330.) In the middle ages
it was called Bardarium (Bardarion, Anna Comn. i. p. 18, Pans.), whence its modern
name of Vardhari. The principal bridge across the Axius was near Pella (Liv. xliv.
43); this bridge is probably identical with the Mutatio Gephyra in the Itin. Hierosol.
(p. 605, Wess.). The Axius is a deep and rapid river in winter, and is nearly
two miles in breadth before reaching the sea; but it can be crossed by several
fords both in the lower and upper parts of its course. (Clark, Travels, vol. iii.
p. 334; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. pp. 258, 289, 437, 469; Tafel, Thessalonica,
pp. 69, seq. 287, seq.)
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CHALASTRA (Small town) THESSALONIKI
Chalastra (Chalastra, Strab. vii. p. 330; Chalestre, Herod. vii. 123;
Chalaistra, Plut. Alex. 49; Plin. iv. 10. § 17, xxxi. 10. § 46), a town of Mygdonia
in Macedonia, situated on the Thermaean gulf at the right of the mouth of the
Axius, which belonged to the Thracians and possessed a harbour. (Steph. B. s.
v.) Perseus, king of Macedonia, barbarously put all the male inhabitants to death.
(Diod. Excerpt. 308.) Afterwards the population, with that of other towns of Mygdonia,
was absorbed in great measure by Thessalonica on its foundation by Cassander.
It cannot, therefore, be expected that many remains should be existing. The site
may, however, be considered to be at or near the modern Kulakia. (Tafel, Thessalon.
p. 277; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 450.)
DION (Ancient city) PIERIA
Dion: Eth. Dieus (Steph. B.; Scyl. p. 26; Strab. vii.). A city which,
though not large (polisma, Thuc. iv. 78), was considered as one of the leading
towns of Macedonia, and the great bulwark of its maritime frontier to the S. Brasidas
was conducted to this place, which is described as being in the territories of
Perdiccas, by his Perrhaebian guides, over the pass of Mt. Olympus. It suffered
considerably during the Social War from an incursion of the Aetolians, under their
strategus Scopas, who razed the walls, and almost demolished the city itself (Polyb.
iv. 28); an outrage which Philip and the Macedonians afterwards amply avenged
by their attack on the Aetolian capital (Polyb. v. 9). In the war against Perseus
Dium had, it appears, completely recovered from that disaster; for in B.C. 169
it was occupied by Perseus, who unaccountably abandoned his strong position on
the approach of the consul. Q. Marcius Philippus, however, remained there only
a short time; and Perseus returned to Dium, after having repaired the damage which
the walls of the city had received from the Romans. (Liv. xliv. 7.) At a later
period it became a Roman colony. (Plin. iv. 10; Ptol. iii. 13. § 15.) Leake has
discovered the site near Malathria, in a position which agrees with the statements
of the Itineraries (Itin. Anton.; Peut. Tab.), and Pausanias (ix. 30. § 8). In
the space between the village and the sources of the Baphyrus he found some remains
of a stadium and theatre; the stone-work which formed the seats and superstructure
of these monuments no longer exists, except two or three squared masses outside
the theatre. The original form and dimensions are sufficiently preserved to show
that the stadium was equal in length to the other buildings of that kind in Greece,
and that the theatre was about 250 feet in diameter. Below the theatre, on the
edge of the water, are the foundations of a large building, and a detached stone
which seems to have belonged to a flight of steps. Some foundations of the walls
of the city can be just seen, and one sepulchral stele was found. Dium, though
situated in a most unhealthy spot, was noted for its splendid buildings and the
multitude of its statues. (Liv. l. c.) Without the town was the temple of Zeus
Olympius from which Dium received its name, and here were celebrated the public
games called Olympia instituted by Archelaus. (Diod. xvii. 16; Steph. B. s. v.
Dion.) The theatre and stadium served doubtlessly for that celebration. Alexander
placed here the group of 25 chieftains who fell at the battle of Granicus,--the
work of Lysippus. (Arrian, Anab. i. 16.) Q. Metellus, after his victory over the
Pseudo-Philip, transferred this chef d'oeuvre (turma statuarum equestrium, Vell.
i. 11) to Rome. Coins of the Colonial of Dium are extant, usually with the type
of a standing Pallas.
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DOVIROS (Ancient city) KILKIS
Doberus (Doberos, Steph. B.; Deboros, Diaboros, Douberos), a Paeonian
town or district, which Sitalces reached after crossing Cercine, and where many
troops and additional volunteers reached him, making up his full total. (Thuc.
ii. 98, 100.) Hierocles names Diaboros next to Idomene among the towns of the
Consular Macedonia under the Byzantine empire; this, coupled with the statement
of Ptolemy (iii. 13. 8. § 28) that it belonged to the Aestraei, would seem to
show that Doberus was near the modern Doghiran.
The Doberes (Doberes, Doberi, Plin. iv. 10) are described by Herodotus
(vii. 113) as inhabiting, with the Paeoplae, the country to the N. of Mt. Pangaeum,
these being precisely the tribes whom he had before associated with the inhabitants
of the Lake Prasias (v. 16). Their position must, therefore, be sought to the
E. of the Strymon: they shared Mt. Pangaeum with the Paeonians and Pierians, and
dwelt probably on the N. side, where, in the time of the Roman empire, there was
a mutatio, or place for changing horses, on the Via Egnatia, called Domeros, between
Amphipolis and Philippi, 13 M. P. from the former and 19 M. P. from the latter.
(Itin. Hierosol.; comp. Tafel, de Via Egnat. p. 10.) (Leake, Northern Greece,
vol. iii. pp. 212, 444, 467.)
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DRAVISKOS (Ancient city) SERRES
Drabeskos (Strab. vii. p. 331; Steph. B.). A place where the Athenian
colonists of Amphipolis were defeated by the Thracian Edoni. In the Peutinger
Table (Daravescus) it is marked 12 M. P. to the NW. of Philippi, a situation which
corresponds with the plain of Dhrama. The plain. of Drabescus is concealed from
Amphipolis by the meeting of the lower heights of Pangaeum with those which enclose
the plain to the NE. Through this: strait the ‘Anghista makes its way to the lake;
and thus there is a marked separation between the Strymonic plain and that which
contains Drabescus and Philippi.
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EDESSA (Ancient city) PELLA
Eth. Edessaios, Edessenos, the ancient capital of Macedonia, was seated
on the Egnatian way, at the entrance of a pass, which was the most important to
the kingdom, as leading from the maritime provinces into Upper Macedonia, and,
by another branch of the same pass, into Lyncestis and Pelagonia. (Polyb. v. 97.
§ 4, xxxiv. 12. § 7; Strab. vii. p. 323, x. p. 449; Ptol. iii. 13. § 39, viii.
12. § 7; Itin. Anton.; Itin. Hierosol.; Peut. Tab.; Hierocl.; Const. Porph. de
Them. ii. 2.) Aegae and Edessa, though some have considered that they were different
towns, are no doubt to be considered as identical, the former being probably the
older form. The commanding and picturesque site upon which the town was built
was the original centre of the Macedonians, and the residence of the dynasty which
sprang from the Temenid Perdiccas. The seat of government was afterwards transferred
to the marshes of Pella, which lay in the maritime plain beneath the ridge through
which the Lydias forces its way to the sea. But the old capital always remained
the national hearth (hestia, Diod. Excerpt.) of the Macedonian race, and the burial-place
for their kings. The body of Alexander the Great, though by the intrigues of Ptolemy
it was taken to Memphis, was to have reposed at Aegae (Paus. i. 6. § 3),--the
spot where his father Philip fell by the hand of Pausanias (Diod. xvi. 91, 92).
The murdered Eurydice and her husband were buried here by order of Cassander,
after having been removed from Amphipolis. (Diod. xix. 52; Athen. iv. p. 155.)
Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, when he had taken the town, gave up the royal tombs to
be rifled by his Gallic mercenaries, in hopes of finding treasure. (Plut. Pyrrh.
26.) After the Roman conquest, Edessa (nobilis urbs, Liv. xlv. 30) belonged to
the third region; and imperial coins, ranging from Augustus to Sabinia Tranquillina,
wife of the third Gordian, have been found, with the epigraph EDESSAION.
In the reign of Basil II., Bodena (Bodena, Cedren. vol. ii. p. 705;
Glycas, p. 309),--whence the modern name,--which was strongly fortified, was one
of the Bulgarian conquests of that emperor.
Vodhena, in the grandeur of its situation, in the magnificence of
the surrounding country, and the extent of the rich prospect which it commands,
is not inferior to any situation in Greece. Notwithstanding its ancient importance,
the Hellenic remains are few; the site, from its natural advantages, has doubtlessly
been always occupied by a town, and new constructions have caused the destruction
of the more ancient. The only vestige of Hellenic fortifications that has been
discovered is a piece of wall which supports one of the modern houses on the edge
of the cliff; but there are many scattered remains in the town, among which are
some inscriptions of the time of the Roman Empire.
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