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Asbotos

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Asbotos (Ancient Greek: Ἄσβωτος) was a town in ancient Thessaly.[1][2] It is unlocated.[3] It may have been a polis (city-state) in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
  2. ^ Eugen Oberhummer: Asbotos.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Vol. II,2, Stuttgart 1896, col. 1519.
  3. ^ a b Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 679. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.