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MEGALI PRESPA (Lake) FLORINA
MIKRI PRESPA (Lake) FLORINA
The surface of the lake in the Greek territory is 43,5 square kilometres. The lake is iced over during winter time.
HERAKLIA LYGISTIKI (Ancient city) FLORINA
The chief town of the province of Upper Macedonia, called Lyncestis,
at a distance of 46 M. P. from Lychnidus and 64 M. P. from Edessa. According to
the proportional distances, Heracleia stood not far from the modern town of Filurina,
at about 10 geog. miles direct to the S. of Bitolia, nearly in the centre of the
Egnatian Way. Calvinus narrowly escaped being intercepted by, the Pompeians on
his rear, after having fallen back upon Heracleia, which Caesar (B.C. iii. 79)
rightly places at the foot of the Candavian mountains, though his transcribers
have interpolated the passage, and confounded it with the Heracleia Sintica of
Thracian Macedonia. The writer of a geographical fragment has identified this
city with Pelagonia, but incorrectly.
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
LYGISTIS (Ancient area) GREECE
Lyncestis (Lunkestis, Strab. vii. p. 326; Ptol, iii. 13. § 33), the
country of the Lyncestae (Lunkestia Thuc. ii. 99, iv. 83, 124; Strab. vii. pp.
323, 326), once a small independent kingdom, and afterwards a province of the
Macedonian monarchy. This district was situated to the S of the Pelagones, and
between that people, and the Eordaei. It was watered by the Erigon, and lay in
the centre of the Egnatian Way, which connected Rome, Constantinople, and Jerusalem.
The pass which separated Lyncestis from Eordaea, where Philip made his unsuccessful
stand against the Romans, is described by Polybius (xviii. 6) as hai heis ten
Eordaian huperbolai,-and Thucydides (iv. 83) calls a defile in the same mountains
he esbole tes Lunkou, in relating the attempt of Perdiccas against Lyncestis,
which ended in a separate negotiation between his ally Brasidas and Arrhibaeus
king of the Lyncestae. (Thuc. iv. 83.) It was by the same pass in the following
year that Brasidas effected his skilful and daring retreat from the united forces
of the Lyncestae and Illyrians. (Thuc. iv. 124.)
According to Strabo (vii. p. 326), Irrha, the daughter of Arrhabaeus
(as he writes the name), was mother of Eurydice, who married Amyntas, father of
Philip. Through this connection Lyncestis may have become annexed to Macedonia.
The geography of this district is well illustrated by the operations of the consul
Sulpicius against Philip, in the campaign of B.C. 200. (Liv. xxxi. 33.) From the
narrative of Livy, which was undoubtedly extracted from Polybius, as well as from
the Itineraries, it would appear that Lyncestis comprehended that part of Upper
Macedonia now called Filurina, and all the S. part of the basin of the Erigon
with its branches, the Bevus and Osphagus. As it is stated that the first encampment
of the Romans was at Lyncus on the river Bevus, and as Lyncus is described as
a town by Stephanus B. (though his description is evidently incorrect), it might
be supposed that Heracleia the chief town of this district, was sometimes called
Lyncus, and that the camp of Sulpicius, was at Heracleia itself. But though the
words ad Lyncum stativa posuit prope flumen Bevum (Liv. l. c.) seem to point to
this identification, yet it is more likely that Lyncus is here used as synonymous
with Lyncestis, as in two other passages of Livy (xxvi. 25, xxxii. 9), and in
Thucydides (iv. 83, 124) and Plutarch. (Flamin. 4.)
At or near Banitza are the mineral acidulous waters of Lyncestis,
which were supposed by the ancients to possess intoxicating qualities. (Ov. Met.
xv. 329; comp. Arist. Meteor. ii. 3; Theopomp. ap. Plin. ii. 103, xxxi. 2, ap.
Antig. Caryst. 180, ap. Sotion. de Flum. p. 125; Vitruv. viii. 3; Sen. Quaest.
Nat. iii. 20.) They were found by Dr. Brown (Travels in Hungaria, Macedonia, Thessaly,
&c. &c., Lond. 1673, p. 45) on the road from Filurina to Egri Budja. He calls
the place Eccisso Verbeni; this, which sounds Wallachian, may possibly be a corruption
of the name of the Derveni or pass. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. pp. 305-318.)
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
HERAKLIA LYGISTIKI (Ancient city) FLORINA
Lyncestis, a town of Macedonia, at the foot of the Candavian Mountains, on the confines of Illyria. Its ruins still retain the name of Erekli. Mention is made of this town in Caesar.
LYGISTIS (Ancient area) GREECE
A district in the southwest of Macedonia, upon the frontiers
of Illyria, inhabited by the Lyncestae, an Illyrian people. The ancient capital
of the country was Lyncus, though Heraclea at a later time became the chief town
in the district. Near Lyncus was a river, whose waters are said to have been as
intoxicating as wine.
This text is cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
MIKRI PRESPA (Lake) FLORINA
PRESPES (Municipality) FLORINA
FLORINA (Prefecture) GREECE
In the following WebPages you can find an interactive map with all the monuments and museums of the Prefecture, with relevant information and photos.
HERAKLIA LYGISTIKI (Ancient city) FLORINA
Archaeololgical excavations took place in 1997.
VEGORRA (Ancient city) FLORINA
A site in the vicinity of Farangi. There is no ancient reference to
a Begora or Begorra, but the name has long been accepted as a necessary basis
for the name Begorritis lacus, by which Livy (42.53.5) identifies Lake Ostrovo.
The true form of the name appears to be Bokeria as it is found on a milestone
of ca. the 3d c. B.C. This milestone points to a site near Kelemis (mod. Farangi)
along the E shore of the lake, where black-glazed pottery was found in 1959-60.
Begorra/Bokeria was apparently a station on the Macedonian royal road
through Eordaia, the road which later became the Via Egnatia. The town lost all
importance during the Roman period, and was replaced by a station at Cellae, near
Novigrad (officially Vegorra). This latter site was for a long time flooded by
Lake Ostrovo, but has recently reappeared. It has been the subject of some informal
investigations.
Excavations in the summer of 1960 revealed a small apsidal structure,
along with some suggestions of rectangular buildings. One inscription, a 2d c.
A.D. funereal monument, probably reused, had been found. Two pieces of sculpture,
a headless male figure and the head of a youth (size not reported) were taken
to the museum at Florina, along with figurines and architectural fragments. Coins
were found ranging in date from Augustus to Valens, with a particular concentration
around the time of Constantine.
The finds suggest that special attention was paid to the Via Egnatia
in the period of the 2d tetrarchy, and support the argument that the Via Egnatia
passed S through the Kirli Derbend pass and around the S of Lake Ostrovo. Gradiste,
a site just N of Katranitsa (mod. Pyrgoi), along the E side of the lake, probably
marks another station on the Via Egnatia.
P. Mackay, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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