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Eordaia, Eordia: Eth. Eordos, Eordaios,Eordaeus, Eordensis. A subdivision
of Upper Macedonia, the inhabitants of which were dispossessed, by the Temenid
princes, of their original seats, which, however, still continued to bear the
name of Eordia. (Thuc. ii. 99.) From the remark of Polybius (ap. Strab. vii. p.
323), that the Candavian way passed through the country of the Eordaei in proceeding
from that of the Lyncestae to Edessa, and from the description of the march of
Perseus from Citium in Lower Macedonia through Eordaea into Elimeia, and to the
Haliacmon (Liv. xlii. 53), we obtain a knowledge of the exact situation of this
district.
It appears to have extended along the W. side of Mount Bermius, comprehending
O'strovo and Katranitza to the N., Sarighioli in the middle, and to the S. the
plains of Djuma Budja and Karaianni, as far as the ridges near Kozani and the
Klisura of Siatista, which seem to be the natural boundaries of the province.
The only Eordaean town noticed in history is Physca (Phuska, Phuskas, Ptol. iii.
13. § 36) or Physcus (Phuskos, Steph. B.), of which Thucydides (ii. 99) remarks
that near it there still remained some of the descendants of the Eordaei, who
had been expelled from all other parts of their original settlements by the Teminidae.
But there is some reason to add to this name those of Begorra and Galadrae as
Eordaean towns. The central and otherwise advantageous position of the former
of these places, leads to the conjecture that it may have been the city Eordaea
(Hierocl.) of later times. As Lycophron (1342, 1444) couples Galadrae with the
land of the Eordaei, and as Stephanus attributes that town to Pieria, it might
best. be sought for at the S. extremity of Eordaea towards the-Haliacmon. and
the frontiers of Pieria, its territory having consisted chiefly, perhaps, of the
plains of Budja and Djuma. If Galadrae was in the S. part of the province, Begorra
in the middle, Physca was probably to the N. about Katranitza, towards the mountains
of the Bermian range, a position which was most likely to have preserved the ancient
race. Ptolemy (iii. 13. § 36) classes three towns under the Eordaei of Macedonia;
but, as Scampa is one of them, he has evidently confounded the Eordaei with the
Eordeti of Illyria.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited May 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Eordaia and Eordia. A district and town in Northwestern Macedonia, peopled by the Eordaei.
Eordoi once dwelt in the region Eordaea above Pella, west of Mount Bermius, near the sources of the Lydias, and Lake Begorrites (Ostrovo). Those who survived the Macedonian conquest were settled near Physca in Mygdonia, between the Axius and the Strymon. (W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus)
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