Perrhaebia ( el, Περραιβία) was the northernmost district of ancient

Thessaly Thessaly ( el, Θεσσαλία, translit=Thessalía, ; ancient Thessalian: , ) 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, The ...

, where the tribe of the

Perrhaebi The Perrhaebi () were an ancient Greek people who lived on the western slopes of Olympus, on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia. They took part in the Trojan War under Guneus and also fought in the Battle of Thermopylae. History Still i ...

lived. Major cities were:

Pythion Pythion ( el, Πύθιον) or Pythium, also Pythoion (Πύθοιον) was a city and polis (city-state) of Perrhaebia in ancient Thessaly, situated at the foot of Mount Olympus, and forming a Tripolis with the two neighbouring towns of Azorus a ...

, Doliche, Azorus, Oloosson and Phalanna the capital. Perrhaebia was part of

Macedon Macedonia (; grc-gre, Μακεδονία), also called Macedon (), was an Classical antiquity, ancient monarchy, kingdom on the periphery of Archaic Greece, Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. Th ...

ia between the 4th and 1st centuries BC.

References

*In the shadow of Olympus By Eugene N. Borza Page 164 Historical regions in Greece Ancient Macedonia {{AncientThessaly-geo-stub