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Axios AUTHOR Tosho Spiridonov YEAR 2013 A river in southwestern Thrace (the Vardar River in present-day North Macedonia and Greece). It is first mentioned by Homer, for whom the waters of the wide-flowing Axios “floweth the fairest over the face of the earth” [Hom. Il. II, 851]. According to his account, the Paeonians trace their […]
Continue readingIstros AUTHOR Svetlana Yanakieva YEAR 2020 Ἴστρος is the name of the lower course of the Danube River, i.e. precisely the part that flows through the Thracian ethnic territory. The same or (later) name of the feminine form Ἰστρία, Histria is also borne by the city on the Black Sea coast not far from the […]
Continue readingAsamus AUTHOR Svetlana Yanakieva YEAR 2020 A tributary of the Istrus in Lower Moesia, present day Osam. It is mentioned only by Pliny the Elder (Plin. NH 3, 149). Roman itineraria, as well as late antique and medieval testimonia, also mention a settlement located on the river – Anasamus, Ansamon, Ἄσημα (n.pl.) or Ἄσημον. The […]
Continue readingAstibоs AUTHOR Svetlana Yanakieva YEAR 2020 A river in southwestern Thrace (Paeonia), today known as the Bregalnica. Ἄστιβος is mentioned only by Polyaenus (Polyaen. 4, 12, 3). The same name Astibus (with the variant Istubera) was also borne by a settlement located on the river, today the town of Štip. The name was defined as […]
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