Balla (Pieria)

Balla
Βάλλα
	Map of ancient Macedonia. The author of the map added an estimated location of Balla in Pieria (at the village of Palaiogratsianon) even though the true location remains in question.

Balla (Ancient Greek: Βάλλα)^[1] or Valla (Οὐάλλαι)^[2] was a town of ancient Macedonia, on the Haliacmon river, south of Phylace, placed in Pieria by Ptolemy^[2] and Pliny,^[3] the inhabitants of which were removed to Pythium.^[1] As Pythium was in Perrhaebia, at the southwestern foot of the Pierian mountains, 19th century archaeologist William Martin Leake placed Balla in the mountainous part of Pieria, and supposed that Velventos may have derived its name from it. In that case it would be a different place from the "Bala" of the Peutinger Table, which stood about midway between Dium and Berrhoea.^[4]

Léon Heuzey misidentified the city of Aegae as Balla in the 1860s,^[5] a view that prevailed until 1976.^[6] Modern scholars treat its site as unlocated.^[7] One suggested location for the city is at the village of Palaiogratsianon [el].^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
^ ^a ^b Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.13.40.
^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 3.10.17.
^ William Martin Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 425.
^ Heuzey, Léon Alexandre; Daumet, Honoré (1876). Mission archéologique de Macédoine [Archaeological mission of Macedonia] (in French). Vol. I. Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et C^ie. p. 181 – via the Internet Archive.
^ Andronikos, Manolis (1976). "Ανασκαφή στη Μεγάλη Τούμπα της Βεργίνας" [Excavation at the Great Tumulus of Vergina]. Αρχαιολογικά Ανάλεκτα Αθηνών [Archaeological Annals of Athens]. 9: 127–129.
^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 50, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^ Hatzopoulos, Miltiadis B.; et al. (Paschidis, Paschalis) (2004). "Makedonia". In Hansen, Mogens Herman; Nielsen, Thomas Heine (eds.). An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (PDF). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 796. ISBN 0198140991. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 December 2024.

Source

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Balla". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

Bibliography

The Macedonian State By N. G. L. Hammond pages 157, 385 ISBN 0-19-814927-1

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[Stephanus-1] Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.

[Ptolemy-2] Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.13.40.

[3] Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 3.10.17.

[4] William Martin Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 425.

[5] Heuzey, Léon Alexandre; Daumet, Honoré (1876). Mission archéologique de Macédoine [Archaeological mission of Macedonia] (in French). Vol. I. Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et C^ie. p. 181 – via the Internet Archive.

[6] Andronikos, Manolis (1976). "Ανασκαφή στη Μεγάλη Τούμπα της Βεργίνας" [Excavation at the Great Tumulus of Vergina]. Αρχαιολογικά Ανάλεκτα Αθηνών [Archaeological Annals of Athens]. 9: 127–129.

[7] Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 50, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.

[8] Hatzopoulos, Miltiadis B.; et al. (Paschidis, Paschalis) (2004). "Makedonia". In Hansen, Mogens Herman; Nielsen, Thomas Heine (eds.). An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (PDF). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 796. ISBN 0198140991. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 December 2024.

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