Pindos or Pindus (
Greek
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: ), also called Acyphas or Akyphas (), was an ancient city and ''
polis
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'' (city-state)
of
Greece
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, one of the towns of the
tetrapolis of
Doris, situated upon a
river of the same name, which flows into the
Cephissus near
Lilaea
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* Lilaea, a Naiad of a spring of the same name. She was the daughter of the river god Cephissus. The ancient ''polis'' of Lilaea, and the moder ...
.
Strabo
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,
Theopompus
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Biography
Early life and education
Theopompus was born on the Aegean island of Chios in 378 or 377 BCE. In his ear ...
, and
Stephanus of Byzantium
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call the city Akyphas. In one passage Strabo says that Pindus lay above
Erineus, and in another he places it in the district of
Oetaea
Oetaea or Oitaia () was a historic region of ancient Thessaly, Greece inhabited by the Oetaeans (Οἰταῖοι). It was the mountainous district around Mount Oeta in the upper valley of the Spercheius, and to the east of Dolopia. The Oetaean ...
; it is, therefore, probable that the town stood in the upper part of the valley, near the sources of the river in the mountain.
The ancient city was situated at a site called
Ano Kastelli
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or Pyrgos,
approximately southwest of
Kastellia
Kastellia (, before 1979: Καστέλλι - ''Kastelli'') is a village in the municipal unit of Gravia, Phocis, Greece. It is situated at the western end of the wide Cephissus valley, at the foot of the mountains Giona and Oeta. It is 3 ...
, and approximately northwest of
Gravia
Gravia () is a village and a former municipality in the northeastern part of Phocis, Greece. Since the Kallikratis plan, 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Delphi, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has ...
.
References
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Populated places in ancient Doris
Former populated places in Greece
Ancient Greek cities
Cities in ancient Greece
Dorian city-states