The Vermio Mountains (), known in antiquity as the Bermion (), is a mountain range in northern Greece. It lies between the Imathia Regional Unit of the

Central Macedonia Central Macedonia ( ; , ) is one of the thirteen Regions of Greece, administrative regions of Greece, consisting the central part of the Geographic regions of Greece, geographical and historical region of Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia. With a ...

Region and the Kozani Regional Unit of the

Western Macedonia Western Macedonia (, ) is one of the thirteen Regions of Greece, administrative regions of Greece, consisting of the western part of Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia. Located in north-western Greece, it is divided into the regional units of Greece ...

Region. The range is west of the plain of Kampania. The town of

Veria Veria (; ), officially transliterated Veroia, historically also spelled Beroea or Berea, is a city in Central Macedonia, in the geographic region of Macedonia, northern Greece, capital of the regional unit of Imathia. It is located north-nor ...

, which is the capital of Imathia, is built on the foot of these mountains. The highest point in the range is the peak Chamiti (), elevation, west of Naousa. In Turkish the mountain is known as Karatash (Karataş), and in Bulgarian it is known as Karakamen (Каракамен). The Vermio Mountains are the site of

ski resorts A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports. In Europe, most ski resorts are towns or villages in or adjacent to a ski area–a mountainous area with pistes (ski trails) and a ski lift system. In North ...

such as

Seli Kato Vermio (, before 1926: Κάτω Σέλι - ''Kato Seli'', or just ) is, primarily, an Aromanians, Aromanian (Vlachs, Vlach) Greek village and a Communities and Municipalities of Greece, community of the Veria, Veria municipality. Since the 2 ...

and Tria Pente Pigadia. It was mentioned in antiquity by Pliny,

Strabo Strabo''Strabo'' (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. The father of Pompey was called "Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Pompeius Strabo". A native of Sicily so clear-si ...

Stephen of Byzantium Stephanus or Stephen of Byzantium (; , ''Stéphanos Byzántios''; centuryAD) was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled ''Ethnica'' (). Only meagre fragments of the dictionary survive, but the epit ...

, Hierocles,

Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; , ; ; – 160s/170s AD) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine science, Byzant ...

, and

Thucydides Thucydides ( ; ; BC) was an Classical Athens, Athenian historian and general. His ''History of the Peloponnesian War'' recounts Peloponnesian War, the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been d ...

and

Herodotus Herodotus (; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the '' Histori ...

. In classical times the mountain was thought by Herodotus to be impassible and according to tradition, paradise was to be held on the other side. During

Hellenistic In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the R ...

times was an internal boundary of the

Macedonian Macedonian most often refers to someone or something from or related to Macedonia. Macedonian(s) may refer to: People Modern * Macedonians (ethnic group), a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with North Macedonia * Mac ...

state.John Anthony Cramer, A geographical and historical description of ancient Greece (1828) p192.

Gallery

File:Vermio Landscape.jpg, Landscape File:Όρος Πάικο - Ιερά Μονή Παναγίας Παραμυθίας και Αγίου Γεωργίου 01.jpg, Panagia Paramythia Monastery File:Πίστες στο χιονοδρομικό Κέντρο της Νάουσας, 3-5 Πηγάδια.jpg, Ski resort

References

External links

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Greek Mountain Flora

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Vermio terrain map
by Geopsis Landforms of Imathia Mountain ranges of Greece Landforms of Central Macedonia Landforms of Western Macedonia Ski areas and resorts in Greece