Location information

Berga

  Berge: Eth. Bergaios. A town of Macedonia, lying inland from the mouth of the Strymon (Scymnlus Ch. 654; Ptol. iii. 13. § 31) only known as the birthplace of the writer Antiphanes, whose tales were so marvellous and incredible as to give rise to a verb Bergaizein, in the sense of telling falsehoods. (Strab. i. p. 47, ii. pp. 102, 104.) Leake places Berga near the modern Takhyno, upon the shore of the Strymonic lake.

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

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)
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