in Ancient Geography, a district of Macedonia, contained between the mouths of the rivers Ludas and Peneus; extended by Strabo beyond the Ludas, 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 Issicus, and lying next Cilicia to the northwest.