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Ancient city
TYRNAVOS".
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1)
Greek & Roman Geography (ed. William Smith) (1)
Perseus Project index (1)

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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites

Phalanna
  The chief city of the Perrhaibians in the region. Phalanna flourished in the 5th and 4th c.,
replacing Olosson in importance by 400 B.C.; although later outstripped by Gonnos, it was still
useful to Perseus as a camp site in 171 B.C. Inscriptions indicate that the city records were kept
in the Temple of Athena Polias, although the city decrees were dated by the tenures of the
priests of Asklepios. There was also a theater and a Sanctuary of Hades and Persephone. The
site, misleadingly described by Strabo as near Tempe, has not been certainly identified, but lay
between Orthe and Gonnos in a position to control the roads from the N and the rich fields to
the S. Although Karatsoli and Gritzova have been proposed, Phalanna was probably on the flat
hill called Kastri 3 km E of modern Tyrnavos; there are building blocks scattered in the area,
but no city walls.
M. H. Mc Allister, ed.

This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites, Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002
from Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu…

Greek & Roman Geography (ed. William Smith)

Phalanna
  Phalanna : Eth. Phalannaios. A town of the Perrhaebi in Thessaly, situated on the left bank of
the Peneius, SW. of Gonnus. Strabo says (ix. p. 440) that the Homeric Orthe became the
acropolis of Phalanna; but in the lists of Pliny (iv. 9. s. 16) Orthe and Phalanna occur as two
distinct towns. Phalanna was said to have derived its name from a daughter of Tyro. (Steph. B.
s. v.) It was written Phalannus in Ephorus, and was called Hippia by Hecataeus. (Steph. B.)
Phalanna is mentioned in the war between the Romans and Perseus, B.C. 171. (Liv. xlii. 54, 65.)
Phalanna probably stood at Karadjoli, where are the remains of an ancient city upon a hill
above the village.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited May 2004 from
The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu…

Perseus Project index

Phalanna
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu…

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