Thessalia in the context of Convention of Constantinople (1881)

Thessalia in the context of Convention of Constantinople (1881)

⭐ Core Definition: Thessalia

Thessaly (/ˈθɛsəli/ THESS-ə-lee; Greek: Θεσσαλία, romanized: Thessalía [θesaˈli.a]; ancient Thessalian: Πετθαλία, Petthalía) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia (Ancient Greek: Αἰολία, Aiolía), and appears in Homer's Odyssey.

Thessaly became part of the modern Greek state in 1881, after four and a half centuries of Ottoman rule. Since 1987 it has formed one of the country's 13 regions and is further (since the Kallikratis reform of 2011) sub-divided into five regional units and 25 municipalities. The capital of the region is Larissa. Thessaly lies in northern central Greece and borders the regions of Macedonia to the north, Epirus to the west, Central Greece to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the east. The Thessaly region also includes the Sporades islands.

↓ Menu
HINT:

In this Dossier

Thessalia in the context of Battle of Plataea

The Battle of Plataea was the final land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It took place in 479 BC near the city of Plataea in Boeotia, and was fought between an alliance of the Greek city-states (including Sparta, Athens, Corinth and Megara), and the Achaemenid Empire of Xerxes I (allied with Greek states including Boeotia, Thessalia, and Macedon).

At the preceding Battle of Salamis, the allied Greek navy had won an unlikely but decisive victory, preventing the conquest of the Peloponnesus region. Xerxes then retreated with much of his army, leaving his general Mardonius to finish off the Greeks the following year. In the summer of 479 BC, the Greeks assembled a huge army and marched out of the Peloponnesus. The Persians retreated to Boeotia and built a fortified camp near Plataea. The Greeks, however, refused to be drawn into the prime terrain for cavalry around the Persian camp, resulting in a stalemate that lasted eleven days.

View the full Wikipedia page for Battle of Plataea
↑ Return to Menu

Thessalia in the context of Phorbas (son of Lapithes)

In Greek mythology, Phorbas (Ancient Greek: Φόρβας gen. Φόρβαντος) or Phorbaceus was a prince of the Thessalian Phlegyes who emigrated to Elis in the Peloponnesos.

View the full Wikipedia page for Phorbas (son of Lapithes)
↑ Return to Menu
LINKED FROM (PARENTS)
← Battle of Plataea ← Phorbas (son of Lapithes) ← Phorbas of Elis
LINKS TO (CHILDREN)
Greek language → Romanization of Greek → Aeolic Greek → Geographic regions of Greece → Administrative regions of Greece → Greece → Ancient Thessaly → Greek Dark Ages → Ancient Greek language → Homer → Odyssey → Convention of Constantinople (1881) → Modern Greek state → Ottoman Greece → Modern regions of Greece → Kallikratis reform → Regional units of Greece → Municipalities of Greece → Larissa → Macedonia (Greece) → Epirus (region) → Central Greece (geographic region) → Aegean Sea → Sporades →