Stena (Macedonia)
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Stena or Stenas was a station 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 ...
, on the road from
Tauriana Tauriana or Taureana (Taurianum in Latin, ''Ταυρανία'' in Greek language, Greek) was an ancient city located in present Palmi, Calabria, Palmi, Reggio Calabria province. The city stood 1 km south of the river ''Metauros'' (probably '' ...
(Doïrân) to
Stobi Stobi or Stoboi (; ; ; ), was an ancient town of Paeonia (kingdom), Paeonia, later conquered by Macedon, and finally turned into the capital of the Ancient Rome, Roman province of Macedonia Salutaris. It is located near Gradsko, North Macedonia ...
, where the river Axius is closely bordered by perpendicular rocks, which in one place have been excavated for the road. The site of Stena is tentatively located near modern Gradec, in
North Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the n ...
.


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Populated places in ancient Macedonia Former populated places in the Balkans {{NorthMacedonia-geo-stub