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IION (Ancient city) KAVALA
Eion: Eth. Eioneus. A town and fortress situated at the mouth of the
Strymon, 25 stadia from Amphipolis, of which it was the harbour. (Thuc. iv. 102.)
Xerxes, on his return after the defeat at Salamis, sailed from Eion to Asia. (Herod.
viii. 118.) The Persian Boges was left in command of the town, which was captured,
after a desperate resistance, by the Athenians and their confederates, under Cimon.
(Herod. vii. 107; Thuc. i. 98; comp. Paus. viii. 8. § 2.) Brasidas attacked it
by land and by boats on the river, but was repulsed by Thucydides, who had come
from Thasos with his squadron in time to save it. (Thuc. iv. 107.) It was occupied
by Cleon; and the remains of his army, after their defeat at Amphipolis, mustered
again at Eion. (Thuc. v. 10.) Extensive ruins of thick walls, constructed of small
stones and mortar, among which appear many squared blocks in the Hellenic style,
have been found on the left bank of the Strymon beyond the ferry. These ruins
belong to the Byzantine period, and have been attributed to a town of the Lower
Empire, Komitisse, which the Italians have converted into Contessa. These remains
at the ferry stand nearly, if not exactly, on the site of Eion on the Strymon.
(Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 172.)
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
PAGGAIO (Mountain) KAVALA
Pangaeum, Pangaeus (to Pangaion or Pangaion oros, ho Pangaios, Herod.
v. 16, vii. 112, 113; Thuc. ii. 99; Aesch. Pers. 494; Pind. Pyth. iv. 320; Eurip.
Rhes. 922, 972; Dion Cass. xlvii. 35; Appian, B.C. iv. 87, 106; Plin. iv. 18;
Virg. Georg. iv. 462; Lucan i.679), the great mountain of Macedonia, which, under
the modern name of Pirndri, stretching to the E. from the left bank of the Strymon
at the pass of Amphipolis, bounds all the eastern portion of the great Strymonic
basin on the S., and near Pravista meets the ridges which enclose the same basin
on the E. Pangaeume produced gold as well as silver (Herod. vii. 112; Appian,
B.C. iv. 106); and its slopes were covered in summer with the Rosa centifolia.
(Plin. xxi. 10; Theoph. H. P. vi. 6; Athen. xv. p. 682.) The mines were chiefly
in the hands of the Thasians; the other peoples who, according to Herodotus (l.
c.), worked Pangaeum, were the Pieres and Odomanti, but particularly the Satrae,
who bordered on the mountain. None of their money has reached us; but to the Pangaean
silver mines may be traced a large coin of Geta, king of the Edones. (Leake, Northern
Greece, vol. iii. pp. 176, 190, 212.)
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
PERGAMOS (Ancient city) KAVALA
A fortress in the Pieric hollow, by which Xerxes passed in his march, leaving
Mt. Pangaeum on his right. It is identified with Pravista, where the lower maritime
ridge forms a junction with Pangaeum, and separates the Pieric valley from the
plain of Philippi.
SKAPTI YLI (Ancient city) KAVALA
Scapte Hyle (Skapte hule, Plut. Cim. 4, de Exilio, p. 605; Marcellin. Vit. Thucyd.
§ 19), or the foss wood, situated on the confines of Macedonia and Thrace, in
the auriferous district of Mt. Pangaeum, to which Thucydides was exiled, and where
he composed his great legacy for all ages - the history of the war in which he
had served as general.
IION (Ancient city) KAVALA
A town in Thrace, at the mouth of the Strymon, twenty-five stadia from Amphipolis, of which it was the harbour.
PAGGAIO (Mountain) KAVALA
(Pangaion) or Pangaeus (Pangaios). A mountain range in Macedonia between the Strymon and the Nestus. It was famous for its mines of gold and silver, and for its roses.
NIKISSIANI (Small town) KAVALA
ELEFTHERES (Municipality) KAVALA
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ELEFTHERES (Small town) KAVALA
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ELEFTHEROUPOLI (Municipality) KAVALA
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KARAVANGELIS (Village) KAVALA
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MELISSOKOMIO (Village) KAVALA
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NIKISSIANI (Small town) KAVALA
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PALEOCHORI (Small town) KAVALA
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PYRGOCHORI (Village) KAVALA
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SKAPTI YLI (Ancient city) KAVALA
Also called, but less correctly, Scaptesyle, a small town on the coast of Thrace, opposite the island of Thasos. It contained celebrated gold mines, which were originally worked by the Thracians. Thucydides here arranged the materials for his history ( Plut. Cim.4; Marcell. Thucyd. 19).
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