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PIERIA

Volume 16 · 69 words · 1810 Edition

in Ancient Geography, 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 farther than the Aiacmon, along the west side of the Sinus Thermaicus.—Another Pieria of Syria, the north part of Seleucia, or the Antiochana, situated on the Sinus Ilicus, and lying next Cilicia to the north-west.