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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
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.
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.
ELEFTHEROUPOLI (Municipality) 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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