Emathia (Macedonia)
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Emathia is an ancient toponym for an area of Lower Macedonia on the Thermaic Gulf between the Pierian range and the Axius. Some ancient geographers give it as the name of a town in the region, or as a
Telescopic photograph of the Macedonian Mountains from Dion in Pieria. The center peaks are the Pierian Mountains. The main peak of Olympus is to be seen in the left background. This part of the plain was perhaps extant as such in the 5th century BC. It diminishes to the left as the mountains approach the Thermaic Gulf. Xerxes looked for some way to get over this mass into Thessaly behind it.
Aggradation, Axios Delta National Park. Note the sand.
View of the Haliakmon River from a cabin in the Pierian Mountains. The size of the river reflects its impoundment there. The river flows to the right.
View from the Vermio Mountains eastward over the plain.
Paeonians
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Paeonians or Paionians were an ancient Indo-European people that dwelt in Paeonia. Paeonia was an ancient country located north of Lower Macedonia, northeast of Pelagonia, south of Dardania, west of T
Emathia (Macedonia)
…them could concentrate. The Bottiaeans also were driven out. They formed the new state of Bottike on Chalcidice. Inevitably the Macedonians reached the Paeonians, an ancient Balkan state on the Axios. All they managed to take from them was a strip of land on the right bank of the Axios, and the north shore of…
Coin of Patraus, king of Paeonia in c. 335–315 BCE
Coin of Patraus, king of Paeonia in c. 335–315 BCE
Paeonian silver tetradrachms dated back to the reign of Patraus