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Mygdonia
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(Μυγδονία; Mygdonía).

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[1] Region in northwestern Asia Minor

Region in northwestern Asia Minor whose name is derived from the Thracian Mygdones who, like the Doliones and the Mysi (Mysia), migrated to the northwestern part of Asia Minor in the 12th cent. BC. The area in which they settled was bordered at the northwest by the Dascylitis (Δασκυλῖτις, now Kuş Gölü), at the …

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Schwertheim, Elmar (Münster) and Olshausen, Eckart (Stuttgart), “Mygdonia”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e813710>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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