Assorus (Mygdonia)
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Asserus or Asseros (), also known as Assorus or Assoros (Ἄσσορος), was a town of
Mygdonia Mygdonia (; ) was an ancient territory, part of ancient Thrace, later conquered by Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Macedon, which comprised the plains around Therma (Thessalonica) together with the valleys of Klisali and Besikia, including the ar ...
in
ancient Macedonia Macedonia ( ; , ), also called Macedon ( ), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, which later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. The kingdom was founded and initially ruled by the royal ...
. The site of Asserus is tentatively located near modern
Assiros Assiros (, before 1926: Γιουβέσνα - ''Giouvesna'', ) is a village and a former municipality in the Thessaloniki regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lagkadas, of which it is a munic ...
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Populated places in ancient Macedonia Former populated places in Greece Geography of ancient Mygdonia {{AncientMygdonia-geo-stub