Gomphoi
Gomphoi (Greek Γόμφοι) was an ancient city in the Greek countryside of Thessaly on the border with Athamania on the site of today's Gomfi .
The city, which was temporarily named Philippoi or Philippopolis after Philip II of Macedonia, was located on an important road over the Pindus Mountains, which made it militarily important. The most important deity of Gomphoi was Dionysus Karpios. In late antiquity the city became the seat of a bishop ; The titular Gomphi of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to the diocese .
Only a few ruins of Gomphoi have survived, most notably the enclosing wall of the triangular acropolis .
literature
- Marion Holland McAllister: Gomphoi. Thessaly, Greece . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
- Ernst Meyer : Gomphoi. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 844.
- Friedrich Stählin : Γόμφοι . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 2, Stuttgart 1912, Col. 1584 f.
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Coordinates: 39 ° 28 ' N , 21 ° 42' E