Thracian pierers
The Pierer were one to the middle of the 7th century BC. Thracian tribe resident in Pieria on Olympus .
Driven out by the Temenids , the Macedonian kings of Argive origin, they later settled in the eastern coastal area of the Strymon under the Pangaion Mountains, the only important coastal passage between Asia or Innerthrace and the Strymon or respectively between Pangaion and Symvolon in the valley of the Mamaras River the most south-western part of the Thracian country to Greece.
In the Marmaras Valley with Neolithic settlements populated up to the early Christian period, there were two fortified Pierian settlements: Phagres and Pergamos . The former was at today's Orfani , the latter has not yet been identified. Phagres was founded in the middle of the 7th century BC. BC, its heyday lasted until the middle of the 6th century. A few years after the founding, the occupation by the Thasites took place in the course of the expansion of the Thasitic Peraia , but possibly also the connection of the Pieren country to the Thasitic Peraia.
When Xerxes I passed through, the Pierer land was a Thasitic colony. It is believed that the sovereignty over the Marmaras Valley was up to the Persian rule with the Pierers themselves. The destruction of Phagres happened in the 5th century when the Persian army withdrew.
literature
- Aspasia Pavlopoulou: Thrace with Herodotus: Representation of an intermediate world, studies on Herodotus history, geography and ethnography of Thrace. Munich 2006, pp. 428-432. Inaugurial dissertation to obtain a doctorate in philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Institute for Ancient History.