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VALA (Ancient city) IMATHIA
Balla or Valla (Balla, Steph. B. s. v.; Ouallai, Ptol. iii. 13. §
40: Eth. Ballaios, Steph.; Vallaeus, Plin. iv. 10. s. 17), a town of Macedonia,
placed in Pieria by Ptolemy and Pliny, the inhabitants of which were removed to
Pythium. (Steph. l. c.) As Pythium was in Perrhaebia, at the southwestern foot
of the Pierian mountains, Leake places Balla in the mountainous part of Pieria,
and supposes that Velvendo may have derived its name from it. In that case it
would be a different place from the Bala of the Table, which stood about midway
between Dium and Berrhoea. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 425.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
The ancient city is located between Vergina and Palatitsa. A post-byzantine church dedicated to the Holy Trinity (Agia Triada church) was built in the place of its palace.
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