Bottiaea

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Bottiaea was an ancient historical region in northern Greece, later incorporated into the kingdom of Macedon.

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Bottiaea canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek region
historical region
borderedBy Almopia
Anthemous
Eordaea
Mygdonia
Pieria
capital Pella, Greece
surface form: Pella
category Ancient Greek geography
Geography of ancient Macedonia
Historical regions in Greece
country Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece
ethnicGroup Bottiaeans
formerPoliticalStatus independent region
historicalEra Archaic period
Classical antiquity
incorporatedInto Macedon
surface form: Kingdom of Macedon
language Ancient Greek
locatedIn Balkans
surface form: Balkan Peninsula

Central Macedonia
Macedonia (Greece)
surface form: Macedonia (region)

Northern Greece
surface form: northern Greece
majorCity Gortynia (Bottiaea)
Ichnae
Pella, Greece
surface form: Pella
mentionedBy Herodotus
Strabo
Thucydides
modernCountry Greece
modernEquivalent Imathia regional unit
parts of Pella regional unit
namedAfter Bottiaeans
partOf Macedon
surface form: Ancient Macedonia

Macedon
surface form: Kingdom of Macedon
politicalIntegration core territory of Macedon
regionType inland plain
religion Ancient Greek religion
strategicImportance control of Axios valley
fertile agricultural land
traversedBy Aliakmonas River
surface form: Aliakmon River

Axios River
Loudias River

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Pella, Greece ancientRegion Bottiaea