Calindoia
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)Calindoia or Kalindoia (
Bottiaean city in Mygdonia (modern Thessaloniki regional unit, Kalamoto village). The name also comes down to us in the form Calindaea.[3] The town also bore the names Alindoia and Tripoiai.[4]
Kalindoia is first reported in the Athenian-Bottiaean alliance of 422 BCE and later in the
Makedones. Priests of Asclepius were frequently eponymous officials (archontes
) in Macedon.
The site of Kalindoia is located near modern Kalamoto.[4][6]
See also
References
- ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.12.
- LSJ : kalindêthra place for horses to roll after exercise, kalindeomairoll about, wallow
- ^ Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Mygdonia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ISBN 0-19-814099-1
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- Epigraphical Database Epidaurian Theorodokoi-IG IV²,1 94-Decree of Kalindoia Meletemata 11 K31 SEG 36.626
- Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis Page 114 by Mogens Herman Hansen, Kurt A. Raaflaub ISBN 3-515-06759-0
- The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor Page 94 by Getzel M. Cohen ISBN 0-520-08329-6
40°32′11″N 23°21′51″E / 40.5365°N 23.3643°E