Therma

Therma or Thermē (Ancient Greek: Θέρμα, Θέρμη) was a Greek city founded by Eretrians or Corinthians in late 7th century BC in ancient Mygdonia (which was later incorporated into Macedon), situated at the northeastern extremity of a great gulf of the Aegean Sea, the Thermaic Gulf. The city was built amidst mosquito-infested swampland, and its name derives from the Greek thérmē/thérma, "(malarial) fever". Therma was later renamed Thessalonica by Cassander. By that time the port of the previous capital of Macedonia, Pella, had begun silting up, so Cassander took advantage of the deep-water port to the northwest of Therma to expand the settlement.

For the modern municipality near Thessaloniki, Greece, see Thermi. For the ancient town of Icaria, see Therma (Icaria). For the ancient city in Sicily, see Termini Imerese. For Roman baths, see Thermae.

The site of Therma is tentatively located 3 miles (5 km) south of modern Thessalonike.[1][2]

See also

References
  1. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 50, and directory notes accompanying.
  2. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  • Herodotus, the Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books, with Introduction Reginald Walter Macan
  • The Letters to the Thessalonians by Gene L. Green
  • From Mycenae to Constantinople: The Evolution of the Ancient City By Richard Allan Tomlinson
  • Hidryma Meletōn Chersonēsou tou Haimou (Thessalonikē, Greece)


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