Bisalthia – area in Macedonia after the lower course of the r. Strimate. Population Bisali lives west and east of r. STRMON, District populated by the Odomani and the Edom. According to the oldest testimony of Herodotus, it is called the area around the city of Argilla (west of Stremon). Tukidide mentions in the context of the conquest of the Macedonian King Alexander ⅰ Macedonian and the expansion of the state to the strimon. In the area there are cities: Berga, the unidentified city of Adrianopol, the city of Evkoria (mentions Stefan Byzantine), etc. After the Macedonian-Roman wars (after 148. from Pharma) B. $ belonging to the first Macedonian area, the so-called. First meridia. Lit.: Heroopus, 4 Wells., Harvard Universitis Press, 1960; Thowzidides, 4 Wells., Harvard Universitis Press, 1958; F. Papazoglu, Macedonian cities U Roman age, Skopje, 1957. A. Shook. The “bis-without” group
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