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ALOS (Ancient city) MAGNESSIA
Amphrysus (Amphrusos). A small river in Thessaly, rising in Mt. Others and flowing
near Alus into the Pagasaean gulf. It is celebrated in mythology as the river
on the banks of which Apollo fed the flocks of king Admetus. (Strab. pp. 433,
435; Apoll. Rhod. i. 54; Virg. Georg. iii. 2; Ov. Met. i. 580, vii. 229; Leake
Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 337.) Hence the adjective Amphrysius is used in reference
to Apollo. Thus Virgil (Aen. vi. 398) calls the Sibyl Amphrysia vates. Statius
(Silv. i. 4. 105) uses the adjective Amphrysiacus in the same sense.
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FARSALOS (Ancient city) THESSALIA
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GEROPLINA (Settlement) SOUTH PELION
Today's cape Kavoulia, westwards of the village.
GOMFI (Ancient city) TRIKALA
A fortress in Athamania in Epeirus, described by Livy as finibus Macedoniae subjectum, and apparently near Gomphi. Leake places it on a height, a little above the deserted village of Apano Porta, or Porta Panaghia. (Liv. xxviii. 1, xxxix. 25; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. pp. 212, 525.)
IOLKOS (Ancient city) VOLOS
Anaurus (Anauros), a small river in Magnesia, in Thessaly, flowing past Iolcos
into the Pagasaean gulf, in which Jason is said to have lost one of his sandals.
(Apoll. Rhod. i. 8; Simonid. ap. Athen. iv. p. 172, e; Apollod. i. 9. § 16; Strab.
ix. p. 436; Lucan vi.370; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 381.)
KYFOS (Ancient city) THESSALIA
Now as for the Aenianians, most of them were driven into Oeta by the Lapiths; and there too they became predominant, having taken away certain parts of the country from the Dorians and the Malians as far as Heracleia and Echinus, although some remained in the neighborhood of Cyphus, a Perrhaebian mountain which had a settlement of the same name.
MAGNESIA (Ancient area) THESSALIA
River on Mt. Sipylus.
Tisaeum (Tisaion: Bardjoia). a lofty mountain on the promontory of Aeantium in
Magnesia in Thessaly, at the entrance of the Pagasaean gulf, on which stood a
temple of Artemis, and where in B.C. 207 Philip V., son of Demetrius, caused watch-fires
to be lighted, in order to obtain immediate knowledge of the movements of the
Roman fleet. (Apoll. Rhod. i. 568; Val. Place. ii. 6; Polyb. x. 42; Liv. xxviii.
5; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 397.)
PELASGIOTIS (Ancient area) THESSALIA
Armenium (Armenion: Magula), a town of Pelasgiotis in Thessaly, situated
between Pherae and Larissa, near the lake Boebeis, said to have been the birthplace
of Armenus, who accompanied Jason to Asia, and gave his name to the country of
Armenia. It is hardly necessary to remark, that this tale, like so many others,
arose from the accidental similarity of the names. The Magula is a circular eminence
three quarters of a mile in circumference, which has some appearance of having
been surrounded with walls; and where though little is observable at present except
broken stones and fragments of ancient pottery, these are in such an abundance
as leaves no doubt of its having been an Hellenic site. (Strab. xi. pp. 503, 530;
Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 451.)
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(Melambion), a place in Pelasgiotis in Thessaly, near Scotussa, is mentioned in
connection with the movements of the armies before the battle of Cynoscephalae.
Leake places it near the sources of the Onchestus, at a place called Dederiani.
(Polyb. xviii. 3, 6; Liv. xxxiii. 6; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 473.)
Nessonis lacus (he Nessonis limne), a lake of Pelasgiotis in Thessaly, lying east of Larissa, now called Karatjair or Maurolimne. In summer it is only a marsh, and contains very little water, but in winter it is filled by the overflowing of the Peneius. When the basin is filled, its superfluous waters are conducted by a channel into the lake Boebeis, now called Karla. (Strab. ix. p. 440; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. i. p. 445, vol. iv. p. 403.) Strabo regarded the lakes Nessonis and Boebeis as the remains of the great lake which covered Thessaly, before the waters found an outlet through the vale of Tempe to the sea; but he is mistaken in saying that Nessonis is larger than Boebeis. (Strab. ix. p. 430.) Nessonis received its name from a town Nesson, which is mentioned only by Stephanus B. (s. v. Nesson).
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RAPSANI (Small town) TYRNAVOS
Ascuris (Ezero), a lake in Thessaly in the range of Mt. Olympus. The castle Lapathus which Livy describes as above the lake Ascuris, probably corresponds to the ancient castle near Rapsani. (Liv. xliv. 2; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. pp. 349, 418.)
SKOTOUSSA (Ancient city) THESSALIA
A river of Thessaly, flowing near Scotussa, through the battle-field
of Cynoscephalae into the lake Boebeis. It was probably the river at the sources
of which Dederiani stands, but which bears no modern name. (Liv. xxxiii. 6; Polyb.
xviii. 3; Steph. B. s. v.; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 473.) It is perhaps
the same river as the Onochonus (Onochonos, Herod. vii. 129; Plin. iv. 8. s. 15),
whose waters were exhausted by the army of Xerxes. It is true that Herodotus describes
this river as flowing into the Peneius; but in this he was probably mistaken,
as its course must have been into the lake Boebeis. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol.
iv. p. 514.)
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TEMBI (Valley) LARISSA
Condylon in Thessaly, is mentioned by Livy as one of the four fortresses which defended Tempe. (Liv. xliv. 6) It was also called Gonno-Condylon, and was one of the towns of the Perrhaebi. (Liv. xxxix. 25.) Leake places it on the left bank of the Peneus between Balamut and the ascent to Rapsani. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 397.)
Lapathus a fortress in the north of Thessaly, near Tempe, which Leake identifies with the ancient castle near Rapsani. (Liv. xliv. 2, 6; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. pp. 397, 418.)
THESSALIA (Ancient area) GREECE
Angea a place in Thessaly in the district Thessaliotis, of uncertain site. (Liv. xxxii. 13.)
Sperchiae a place in Thessaly, which, according to the description of Livy (xxxii.
13), would seem to have been situated at no great distance from the sources of
the Spercheius. Ptolemy (iii. 13. § 17) mentions a place Spercheia between Echinus
and Thebes in Phthiotis; and Pliny (iv. 7. s. 13) places Sperchios in Doris. It
is probable that these three names indicate the same place, but that its real
position was unknown.
THESSALIOTIS (Ancient area) THESSALIA
Acharrae a town of Thessaly in the district Thessaliotis, on the river Pamisus, mentioned only by Livy (xxxii. 13), but apparently the same place as the Acharne of Pliny (iv. 9. s. 16).
TRIKERI (Municipal unit) SOUTH PELION
Tisaeum (Tisaion: Bardjoia). a lofty mountain on the promontory of Aeantium in
Magnesia in Thessaly, at the entrance of the Pagasaean gulf, on which stood a
temple of Artemis, and where in B.C. 207 Philip V., son of Demetrius, caused watch-fires
to be lighted, in order to obtain immediate knowledge of the movements of the
Roman fleet. (Apoll. Rhod. i. 568; Val. Place. ii. 6; Polyb. x. 42; Liv. xxviii.
5; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 397.)
Aeantium (Aiantion: Trikeri), a promontory in Magnesia in Thessaly, forming the
entrance to the Pagasaean bay. According to Ptolemy there was a town of the same
name upon it. Its highest summit was called Mt. Tisaeum. (Plin. iv. 9. s. 16;
Ptol. iii. 13. § 16; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 397.)
VIVI (Ancient city) MAGNESSIA
The city of Boebe was situated at the south-east shore of the Lake Boebeis, which, afterwards, was renamed Karla and was drained at the half of the 20th century. The lake is mentioned by Homer (Il. 2.711).
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PAGASSITIKOS GULF (Gulf) MAGNESSIA
Pyrrha (Purrha), a promontory of Thessaly, now C. Ankistri, in the
Pagasaean gulf, forming the northern boundary of the district Phthiotis, and near
which were the two islets of Pyrrha and Deucalion. (Strab. ix. p. 435; Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. iv. pp. 359, 360, 371.)
PATRICHORI (Settlement) SOUTH PELION
On the coast of the Aegean Sea, to the NE of the village.
ARMENIO (Village) LARISSA
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LARISSA (Ancient city) THESSALIA
Hyperia, (Hupereia). A fountain of Thessaly, placed by some in the vicinity of Argos Pelasgicum, while others think that it was near Pherae.
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