Tomaros ( el, Τόμαρος, also Ολύτσικας - ''Olytsikas'' or ''Tomaros'') is a mountain in southwestern Ioannina regional unit,

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. Rising to the south of the archaeological site of

Dodona Dodona (; Doric Greek: Δωδώνα, ''Dōdṓnā'', Ionic and Attic Greek: Δωδώνη, ''Dōdṓnē'') in Epirus in northwestern Greece was the oldest Hellenic oracle, possibly dating to the second millennium BCE according to Herodotus. Th ...

, it is part of the

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mountain range. Its maximum elevation is 1,974 m. The nearest mountains are the

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) passes northwest of the mountain with tunnels.

Etymology

Two suggestions have been proposed. Related to Greek '' temno'' cut + ''

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'' mountain (sharp mountain)

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*tom-/*tem- "cut",

Vale of Tempe The Vale of Tempe ( el, Κοιλάδα των Τεμπών) is a gorge in the Tempi municipality of northern Thessaly, Greece, located between Olympus to the north and Ossa to the south, and between the regions of Thessaly and Macedonia. The ...

, Tomi city, Tomouroi priests of Dodona (wood-cutters) or chastified (with cutten tail, line oura) or
tomarion
' diminutive of ''tomos'' slice, piece of land, tome, volume. Related to Tmor and Tomori mountains in

Illyria In classical antiquity, Illyria (; grc, Ἰλλυρία, ''Illyría'' or , ''Illyrís''; la, Illyria, ''Illyricum'') was a region in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula inhabited by numerous tribes of people collectively known as the Illyr ...

and Illyrian eponym ''Temus''. A proposed Illyrian word for "dark",

*temes akin to Latin ''tenebrae'' "darkness", ''temere'' "blindly, by chance", Old Irish ''temel'' "darkness", Middle Irish ''teimen'' "dark grey", Old High German ''demar'' "darkness", ''dinstar'' "dark", Old Church Slavonic ''tǐma'' "darkness", ''tǐmǐnǔ'' "dark", etc JP Mallory, J.P. and D.Q. Adams. ''Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture''. London: Fitzroy and Dearborn, 1997: 147.

References

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External links

Tomaros on GTP Travel Pages
Landforms of Ioannina (regional unit) Mountains of Greece Mountains of Epirus (region)