Tymphaea

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Tymphaea (or Tymphaia) was an ancient Greek region in Epirus inhabited by the Tymphaioi.[1] The area was incorporated into Macedon in 350 BC as part of Upper Macedonia. The most famous native of Tymphaia was Polysperchon, a regent of Macedon.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ John Boardman and Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond. The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 3, Part 3: The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries B.C. Cambridge University Press, 1992, p. 284.
  2. ↑ Hatzopoulos, Miltiades V. Macedonian Institutions Under the Kings. Athens: Kentron Hellēnikēs kai Rōmaïkēs Archaiotētos, 1996.
  3. ↑ Hazlitt, William. The Classical Gazetter, 1851, p. 360 (Tymphaea).

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