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VOTIEA (Ancient area) GREECE
or Bottiaea (Bottiaia). A district in Macedonia, on the right
bank of the river Axius, extending in the time of Thucydides to Pieria on the
west. The Bottiaei were a Thracian people, who, being driven out of the country
by the Macedonians, settled in that part of the Macedonian Chalcidice north of
Olynthus which was called Bottice.
This text is cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Bottiaiis, or Bottia, a land called after its earlier inhabitants, driven by the Macedonians into Chalcidice, it lay between the lower courses of the Axius and the Haliacmon. The small wedge-shaped plain coming down to the sea was divided between Ichnae and Pella. The latter, under Philip capital of Macedon, lay 120 stades from the sea. (W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus
Total results on 27/8/2001: 8 Bottiaea, 2 Bottiaiis, 7 Bottia, 6 Bottiaean, 20 Bottiaeans
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