Berge (Bisaltia)
Berge or Berga (
ancient Macedonia, in what is now the Serres regional unit
in northern Greece.
The town was located inland from the mouth of the
emporion sometime in the 5th century BCE.[3] The town was a member of the Delian League, and according to N. G. L. Hammond was colonized by 1000 Athenians.[1] Later sources call it a polis, but according to Strabo it was a village of the Bisaltae and Ptolemy writes that it was in the territory of the Odomanti.[1][4][5]
Berge was a rich city that minted her own coins from 476 to 356 BCE depicting
Roman
times.
It was the homeland of Antiphanes of Berge (4th century BCE), writer of the book Apista (Unbelievable Stories), from which the verb bergaḯzein (Greek: βεργαΐζειν) was created to denote someone telling incredible stories.[1]
Its site is located about 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of modern Nigrita.[6][7]
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 90-04-06921-6(1986)
- ^ An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 859
- ISBN 0-89722-298-9(2006)
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. i. p. 47, ii. pp. 102, 104. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.13.31.
- ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Berga". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.