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Calindoia or Kalindoia (
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: ) was an ancient
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city in
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(modern Thessaloniki regional unit, Kalamoto village). The name also comes down to us in the form Calindaea. The town also bore the names Alindoia and Tripoiai. Kalindoia is first reported in the Athenian-Bottiaean alliance of 422 BCE and later in the Epidaurian list of
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of 360/59 BCE. The name of Theodorokos was Pausanias, possibly the same as Pausanias, the pretender to the Macedonian throne in 368 and 360 BCE. It was refounded as a
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ian city in the late 4th century BCE. A dedicatory inscription to
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was found at Toumbes Kalamotou; it records a list of priests of
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(archpriest
Agathanor * Agathanor (Greek:Αγαθάνωρ) (late 4th century BC) son of Agathon was the Macedonian archpriest of Asclepius, mentioned in the decree of Kalindoia. * Agathanor son of Thrasycles (c. 250-200 BC) from Beroea, was also a Macedonian priest of Ap ...
) who had fulfilled their duties from the time when King Alexander gave Kalindoia to Makedones. Priests of Asclepius were frequently eponymous officials (
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tes) in Macedon. The site of Kalindoia is located near modern Kalamoto.


See also

* List of ancient Macedonians in epigraphy#Kalindoia decree (c. 335 - 305 BC)


References

*Epigraphical Database Epidaurian Theorodoko
IG IV²,1 94
Decree of Kalindoi
Meletemata 11 K31 SEG 36.626
*Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis Page 114 by Mogens Herman Hansen, Kurt A. Raaflaub *The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor Page 94 by Getzel M. Cohen Geography of ancient Mygdonia Populated places in ancient Macedonia Cities in ancient Macedonia Former populated places in Greece Argead colonies in Macedonia Members of the Delian League {{AncientMygdonia-geo-stub