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PIERIA

Volume 14 · 69 words · 1797 Edition

(anc. geog.), a district of Macedonia, contained between the mouths of the rivers Ludias and Peneus; extended by Strabo beyond the Ludias, to the river Axios on the north, and on the south no farther than the Aliacmon, along the west side of the Sinus Thermaicus.—Another Pieria of Syria, the north part of Seleucia, or the Antiochena, situated on the Sinus Isthmus, and lying next Cilicia to the north-west.