Beginning in the 8th century BC, Greek city-states began colonizing the Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts. Whether this sudden phenomenon was due to overpopulation, severe droughts, or an escape for ...
AkontismaAntisaraApollonia, founded by IoniansBerga, founded by colonists from ThasosDatos, founded by colonists from ThasosDrabeskosEion, founded by colonists from AthensEnnea HodoiGalepsus, founded ...
The oldest city within modern France, Marseille, was founded around 600 BCE by Greeks from the Asia Minor city of Phocaea (as mentioned by Thucydides Bk1,13, Strabo, Athenaeus and Justin) as a trading ...
The Cholomontas mountains lie in the northcentral part of Chalkidiki. Chalkidiki consists of a large peninsula in the northwestern Aegean Sea, resembling a hand with three "fingers" (though in Greek t ...
The first historical record about the Thracians is found in the Iliad, where they are described as allies of the Trojans in the Trojan War against the Greeks. The ethnonym Thracian comes from Ancient ...
Albanian music displays a variety of influences. Albanian folk music traditions differ by region, with major stylistic differences between the traditional music of the Ghegs in the north and Tosks in ...
Southeast EuropeApproximately 7 million Albanians are to be found within the Balkan peninsula with about half this number residing in Albania and the other divided between Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia,t ...
The ethnonym Albanians is believed to be derived from Albanoi, an Illyrian tribe mentioned by Ptolemy in the city of Albanopolis. While the exonym Albania for the general region inhabited by the Alban ...
The name Almopia (Ancient Greek: ?λμωπ?α, Almōpia) derives from the Almōpes (?λμ?πε?), the tribe that originally inhabited the area during Antiquity. The Almopes traced their descent t ...
Mygdonia (/m?ɡ?do?ni?/; Greek: Μυγδον?α / Μygdonia) was an ancient territory, part of Ancient Thrace, later conquered by Macedon, which comprised the plains around Therma (Thessalonica) ...
Bottiaea comprised the northeastern part of Imathia and the area between the Loudias and the Axios Rivers (the western area of today's Giannitsa).Cities The historic cities of Bottiaea were Aigae (Ver ...
The municipality Eordaia was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 5 former municipalities, that became municipal units:Agia ParaskeviMourikiPtolemaidaVermioVlastiP ...
The Vardaris or Vardarec is a powerful prevailing northerly ravine wind which blows across the river valley in Greek Macedonia as well as in the Republic of Macedonia. At first it descends along the ...
Upper Macedonia (Greek: ?νω Μακεδον?α, ?nō Makedonía) is a geographical and tribal term to describe the upper/western of the two parts in which, together with Lower Macedonia, the ancie ...
