Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . 560. (Clinton, Raoul-Rochette, vol. iii. p. 786.) From tlie inscriptions inBockh {Inscr. Nos. 2056, a, b, c), it would seem tohave been under a democratic form of government, ODRYSAE. 463 and to have presided over the union of five Greekcities on this coast, consisting of Odessus, Tomi,Callatis, Mesambria, and Apollonia When theBulgarians swept over the Danubian provinces inA. D. 679 they are found occupying Varna (Bopra,Theophan. p. 298; Niceph. p. 23; Cedren. vol. 440), which is described as being near Odessus.(St. JIartin, ap. Le
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . 560. (Clinton, Raoul-Rochette, vol. iii. p. 786.) From tlie inscriptions inBockh {Inscr. Nos. 2056, a, b, c), it would seem tohave been under a democratic form of government, ODRYSAE. 463 and to have presided over the union of five Greekcities on this coast, consisting of Odessus, Tomi,Callatis, Mesambria, and Apollonia When theBulgarians swept over the Danubian provinces inA. D. 679 they are found occupying Varna (Bopra,Theophan. p. 298; Niceph. p. 23; Cedren. vol. 440), which is described as being near Odessus.(St. JIartin, ap. Le Beau, Bas Empire, vol. xi. ; Schafarik, Slav. Alt. vol. ii. p. 217.) Theautonomous coins of Odessus exhibit types refer-ring to the worship of Serapis. the god imported byPtolemy into Alexandreia, from the shores of series of imperial coins ranges from Trajan toSalonina, the wife of Gallienus. (Eckhel, vol. ii. ; Rasche, vol. iii. pt. 2. p. 51; Mionnet, Descr. desMed. vol. i. p. 395, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 350.) []. COIN OF ODESSUS. ODOMANTI (OUjxavToi, Herod, vii. 112;Thuc. ii. 101, V. 6; Steph. B. s. v. \ Odomantes,Plin. iv. 18), a Paeonian tribe, who occupied thedistrict, called after them, Odomantice (^O^ofiav-TiKT], Ptol. iii. 13. § 31; Liv. xliv. 4; OZufj-avrU,Steph. B.) This tribe were settled upon the wholeof the great mountain Orbelus, extending along theNE. of the lower Strymonic plain, from about Mele-niko and Demirissdr to Zikhna inclusive, wherethey bordered on Pangaeus, the gold and silvermines of which they worked with the Pieres andSatrae. (Herod. I. c.) Secure in their inacces-sible position, they defied Megabazus. (Herod, ) The NW. portion of their territory lay to theright of Sitalces as he crossed Mt. Cercine; andtheir general situ:ition agrees with the description ofThucydides (ii. 101), according to whom they dweltbeyond the Strymon to the N., that is to say, to theN. of the Lower Strymon, where, alone, the rivertakes such a cou
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