Mygdonia

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Mygdonia (ancient Greek Μυγδονία , Latin Mydonia ) is:

in ancient geography:

  • Mygdonia , landscape in northern Mesopotamia
    • Antioch Mygdonia , city in the landscape of the same name, see Nisibis
  • Mygdonia (Greece) , landscape in the border area between ancient Macedonia and Thrace, around the lower reaches of the Struma
  • Mygdonia (Asia) , according to some interpretations a region in Asia Minor or in Phrygia
  • after the Byzantine scholar Johann Tzetzes the original name of the Thracian city Perinthos

Also:

  • a formerly independent municipality in northern Greece, today a municipality of Oreokastro