Therma

Therma or Thermē (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.

References

• 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)

External links

• Ancient coinage from Therma

Coordinates: 40°33′00″N 23°01′00″E / 40.5500°N 23.0166°E / 40.5500; 23.0166