Therma

For the modern municipality of Thessaloniki Prefecture, see Thermi. For the ancient city in Sicily, see Termini Imerese. For Roman baths, see Thermae.

Therma or Thermē (Θέρμα, Θέρμη) was a Greek city founded by Eretrians or Corinthians in late 7th century BC in ancient Mygdonia (which was later incorporated into Macedon), situated at the northeastern extremity of a great gulf of the Aegean Sea, the Thermaic Gulf. The city was built amidst mosquito-infested swampland, and its name derives from the Greek thérmē/thérma, "(malarial) fever". Therma was later renamed Thessalonica by Cassander. By that time the port of the previous capital of Macedonia, Pella, had begun silting up, so Cassander took advantage of the deep-water port to the northwest of Therma to expand the settlement.

References

• Herodotus, the Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books, with Introduction [1] Reginald Walter Macan
• The Letters to the Thessalonians [2] by Gene L. Green
• From Mycenae to Constantinople: The Evolution of the Ancient City [3] By Richard Allan Tomlinson
• Hidryma Meletōn Chersonēsou tou Haimou (Thessalonikē, Greece)[4]

External links

• Ancient coinage from Therma