Berga (Ancient Greek: Βέργα) was an ancient Greek city located in Thrace , located in the region between the river Strymon and the river Nestos.It was founded by colonists from Thasos[1][2].
Berga is located in the current prefecture of Serres. It was considered on of the most important cities of ancient Bisaltia. Her name is owed likely in the first born son of a figure from Greek mythology called Bisalti named Bergo.Ancient Berga was most likely an important commercial station in the navigable river Strymon, in the banks of the ancient lake Kerkini. Thasians had been migrated in the 6th century BC because her geography location, her agricultural and mining wealth it evolved into a colony of Thasos. The city acquired sovereign role, while facilitated the locomotion of goods from Aegean sea and Thassos to the Thracian hinterland and the rest of the ancient Balkans. It began to lose its importance after the foundation of Amphipolis , it continued however being a self-sufficient city in Hellenistic and Roman times. It was a rich city and that minted her own currencies from 476 to 356 BC the currencies they depicted Silenus with a nymph or Silenus or a fish carp or square crisscross in form of swastikas and had the following words inscribed, (Ancient Greek: ΒΕΡΤ) or (Ancient Greek: ΒΕΡΓΑΙ) or (Ancient Greek: ΒΕΡΓΑΙΟΥ).Berga gained fame in the antiquity from the comical poet Antiphanes, that never said the truth.This created the ancient proverb for every liar ,that he (Ancient Greek: βεργαϊζει). A poet of Attica that wrote lives of heterai,called the unfaithfull (Ancient Greek: Άπιστα), that unfortunately are not saved. It was Antiphanes, that intervened with Demosthenes for an alliance with the Athenians and thus acquired Athenian citizenship, with the exhortation of Demosthenes.