Strepsa (; Greek: ) was an ancient city of Mygdonia,

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, near Therma, toward

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. The editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, tentatively identify Strepsa with the modern village of

Basilika The ''Basilika'' was a collection of laws completed c. 892 AD in Constantinople by order of the Eastern Roman emperor Leo VI the Wise during the Macedonian dynasty. This was a continuation of the efforts of his father, Basil I, to simplify and ...

, in the municipality of

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. Strepsa is mentioned by

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

(I.61.4). It was a member of the

Delian League The Delian League, founded in 478 BC, was an association of Greek city-states, numbering between 150 and 330, under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Pl ...

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References

*W. Hazlitt, The Classical Gazetteer. Geography of ancient Mygdonia Cities in ancient Macedonia Populated places in ancient Macedonia Former populated places in Greece Members of the Delian League {{AncientMygdonia-geo-stub