Therma or Thermē ( grc, Θέρμα, ) was a Greek city founded by Eretrians or

Corinth Corinth ( ; el, Κόρινθος, Kórinthos, ) is the successor to an ancient city, and is a former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, which is located in south-central Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part o ...

ians in late 7th century BC in ancient Mygdonia (which was later incorporated into

Macedon Macedonia (; grc-gre, Μακεδονία), also called Macedon (), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. The kingdom was founded and initially ruled by ...

), situated at the northeastern extremity of a great gulf of the

Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea ; tr, Ege Denizi (Greek language, Greek: Αιγαίο Πέλαγος: "Egéo Pélagos", Turkish language, Turkish: "Ege Denizi" or "Adalar Denizi") is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It ...

, the

Thermaic Gulf The Thermaic Gulf (), also called the Gulf of Salonika and the Macedonian Gulf, is a gulf constituting the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. The city of Thessaloniki is at its northeastern tip, and it is bounded by Pieria Imathia and Larissa ...

. The city was built amidst mosquito-infested swampland, and its name derives from the Greek ''thérmē/thérma'', "(

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l) fever". Therma was later renamed

Thessalonica Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of ...

by Cassander. By that time the port of the previous capital of Macedonia, Pella, had begun silting up, so Cassander took advantage of the deep-water port to the northwest of Therma to expand the settlement. The site of Therma is tentatively located 3 miles (5 km) south of modern

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...

around the suburb of modern Thermi.

References

*Herodotus, the Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books, with Introductio

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*The Letters to the Thessalonian

by Gene L. Green *From Mycenae to Constantinople: The Evolution of the Ancient Cit

By Richard Allan Tomlinson *Hidryma Meletōn Chersonēsou tou Haimou (Thessalonikē, Greec

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Ancient coinage from Therma
Cities in ancient Macedonia Greek colonies in Mygdonia Ancient Thessalonica Populated places established in the 7th century BC Former populated places in Greece Populated places in ancient Macedonia Eretrian colonies Corinthian colonies {{AncientMygdonia-geo-stub

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