Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . a placecalled Lifka from a deserted village of that namenear the village of ErimSkastro or most other Greek cities, it stands in a plainsurrounded by hills on either side, and its foundersappear to have chosen the site in consequence ofits abundant supply of water, the sources of tha THESPROTI. river Kanavdn risinc; here. Leake noticwl thefoundations of an oblong or oval enclosure, built ofvery solid masonry of a regular kind, about half amile in circumference; but he observes that all theadjacent ground to the SE. is covered, like th
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . a placecalled Lifka from a deserted village of that namenear the village of ErimSkastro or most other Greek cities, it stands in a plainsurrounded by hills on either side, and its foundersappear to have chosen the site in consequence ofits abundant supply of water, the sources of tha THESPROTI. river Kanavdn risinc; here. Leake noticwl thefoundations of an oblong or oval enclosure, built ofvery solid masonry of a regular kind, about half amile in circumference; but he observes that all theadjacent ground to the SE. is covered, like theinterior of the fortress, with ancient foundations,squared stones, and other remains, proving thatif the enclosure was the only fortified part of thecity, many of the public and private edifices stoodwithout the walls. The site of some of the ancienttemples is probably marked by the churches, whiclicontain fragments of architraves, columns, and otherancient remains (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. 479, seq.; Dodwell, vol. i. p. 253.). COIN OF TIIESPIAE. THESPROTI, THESPEOTIA. [Epeirus.]THESSALIA (0fo-o-a\ia or ©crraAia : Eth.®€rTaa\6s or ©eTToAd?, Thessalus, fern. , Thessalis: Adj. BeaaaXtKos, QtrraAiKus,Thessalicus, ), the largest political divi-sion of Greece, was in its widest extent the wholecountry lying N. of Thermopylae as far as theCambunian mountains, and bounded upon the the range of Pindus. But the name of Thes-saly was more specifically applied to the greatjilain, by far the widest and largest in all Greece,enclosed by the four great mountain barriers of Pin-dus, Othrys. Ossa and Pelion. and the Cambunianmountains. From Mount Pindus,—the Apenninesor back-bone of Greece, — which separates Thes-^aly from Epeirus, two large arms branch off towardstlie eastern sea, running parallel to one another atthe distance of 60 miles. The northern, called theCambunian mountains, forms the boundary betweenThessaly and ]\Iacedonia, and
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