Iamphorynna

Iamphorina

Iamphorina

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Iamphorina or Iamphorynna was the capital of the Maedi, a Thracian tribe in ancient Macedonia. It was taken by Philip V of Macedon in 211 BCE.[1] Writing in the 19th century, William Martin Leake placed it at Ivorina (Vrania), in the upper valley of the Morava River.[2] Modern scholars treat it as unlocated.[3] Stephanus of Byzantium, citing Diodorus, has the name as Phorunna or Phorounna (Ancient Greek: Φόρουννα).[4][3]

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  1. [1]
    Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 26.25.
  2. [2]
    William Martin Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 473.
  3. [3]
    Walbank, F. W. (1940). Philip V of Macedon. Cambridge: The Cambridge University Press. p. 86.
  4. [4]
    Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Iamphorina". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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