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39°58′04″N 21°56′02″E / 39.96769°N 21.9338°E / 39.96769; 21.9338 Mondaea or Mondaia (Ancient Greek: Μονδαία) was a town and polis (city-state) of Perrhaebia in ancient Thessaly. The city appears in an epigraph dated to 375-350 BCE in a list of Perrhaebian towns that offered a joint dedication to Apollo Pythios. It also appears in a decree of proxenia of the year 178 BCE in an inscription at Gonnus.

Its location has been found near modern Loutro Elassonos.

References

  1. ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 724. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  2. RegionsCentral Greece (IG VII-IX)Thessaly (IG IX,2), SEG 29:546, 14.
  3. Jorge Martínez de Tejada Garaizábal, Instituciones, sociedad, religión y léxico de Tesalia de la antigüedad desde la época de la independencia hasta el fin de la edad antigua (siglos VIII AC-V DC), tesis doctoral, pp.86, 163. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2012). (in Spanish)
  4. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  5. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.


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