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Therme

Therma or Thermē (Ancient Greek: Θέρμα, Θέρμη) is the unknown city incorporated into the new city of Thessaloniki by the Macedonians on its synoecism and foundation. Little is known of literary Therma, including its exact location.

Thessaloniki is the second-largest city in Greece. It surrounds the entire north of the Thermaic Gulf, named after its predecessor. Exactly where Therma was remains a mystery. There is not much room for archaeological excavation between all the modern skyscrapers, and the parklands are valued as such. However, two large habitation mounds remain available and have been extensively excavated. No literary or inscriptional fragment ties them to Therma. The pottery is Greek, but such is the case for any settlement of the times around the Aegean, regardless of known language or ethnic connections. Nearly all of Lower Macedonia was Macedonianized in classical times by the aggressive Argead dynasty, in which the original Thessaloniki, half-sister of Alexander the Great, became queen.

Literary fragments concerning Therma

Ethnicity

The question of polis

Synoecism into Thessaloniki

Archaeological sites of Therma

Mikro Emvolo

Toumba

See also

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

  • Herodotus, the Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books, with Introduction [1] Reginald Walter Macan
  • The Letters to the Thessalonians [2] by Gene L. Green
  • From Mycenae to Constantinople: The Evolution of the Ancient City [3] By Richard Allan Tomlinson
  • Hidryma Meletōn Chersonēsou tou Haimou (Thessalonikē, Greece)[4]