Mygdonia
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Mygdonia
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| Established | Ancient times |
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Mygdonia (/mɪɡˈdoʊniə/; Template:Langx) was an ancient territory, part of ancient Thrace, later conquered by Macedon, which comprised the plains around Therma (Thessalonica) together with the valleys of Klisali and Besikia, including the area of the Axios river mouth and extending as far east as Lake Bolbe. To the north it was joined by Crestonia. The Echeidorus, which flowed into the Thermaic Gulf near the marshes of the Axios, had its sources in Crestonia. The pass of Aulon or Arethusa was probably the boundary of Mygdonia towards Bisaltia. The maritime part of Mygdonia formed a district called Amphaxitis, a distinction which first occurs in Polybius, who divides all the great plain at the head of the Thermaic gulf into Amphaxitis and Bottiaea, and which is found three centuries later in Ptolemy. The latter introduces Amphaxitis twice under the subdivisions of Macedonia (in one instance placing the mouths of the Echidorus and Axios in Amphaxitis, and mentioning Thessalonica as the only town in the district, which agrees with Polybius and with Strabo). In another place Ptolemy includes Stageira and Arethusa in Amphaxitis, which, if correct, would indicate that a portion of Amphaxitis, very distant from the Axios, was separated from the remainder by a part of Mygdonia; but since this is improbable, the word is perhaps an error of the text.
History and etymology
The area has been inhabited since the Mesolithic era (9000–7000 BC). Early inhabitants probably were the Pelasgians, followed by the Mygdones, who gave their name to the region. The Mygdones may have been a Brigian or Thracian tribe.[1] Paeonians and also Thracians (in particular, the Edonians) ruled and inhabited the region for a time, until it was annexed to Macedon.
Mygdonia and the Mygdones were named after Mygdon, a mythological figure considered to be a son of Ares and Callirrhoe, according to Stephanus of Byzantium. His brothers, Edonus, Odomantus and Biston, had other regions and their peoples named after them as well, and so did his sons, Crusis and Grastus.[2]
Main cities
The main cities of Mygdonia were Therma (Thessalonica), Sindus, Chalastra, Altus, Strepsa, Cissus, Mellisurgis (today, Mellisourgós), and Heracleustes. According to the Acts of the Apostles, the town of Apollonia was visited by the apostles Paul and Silas.[3] Besides these, the following obscure towns occur in Ptolemy: Chaetae, Moryllus, Antigoneia (which actually refers to Antigonia Psaphara in the Chalcidice[4]), Calindaea, Boerus, Physca, Trepilus, Carabia, Xylopolis, Assorus, Lete, Phileres, Dicaea, Aeneia and Arethusa.
Modern Mygdonia
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See also
Footnotes
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- ^ The Assyrian and Babylonian empires and other states of the Near East, from the eighth to the sixth centuries B.C., John Boardman, Cambridge University Press, 1991, Template:ISBN, p. 601.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hammond, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière; Griffith, Guy Thompson (1979). A history of Macedonia. Oxford: Clarendon press. ISBN 978-0-19-814814-2.
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- ^ M.H. Hansen, Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis (1995), Template:ISBN, p. 113 & n. 62
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."PREFECTURE OF THESSALONIKI". alexander.macedonia.culture.gr. Archived from the original on 2005-04-14. Retrieved 2025-06-18.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Ελληνικά). National Statistical Service of Greece.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ταυτότητα". Δήμος Ωραιοκάστρου (in Ελληνικά). Retrieved 2025-06-18.
References
- Smith, William (editor), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography Vol 2 (1854), page 384.
External links
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