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BISALTAE

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 991 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BISALTAE  , a Thracian

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people on the
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lower Strymon (Struma; Karasu, " black
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water "), in the
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district between Amphipolis and
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Heraclea Sintica on the east and Crestonice on the west . They also made their way into the peninsulas of Acte and Pallene in the south, beyond the
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river Nestus in the east, and are even said to have raided Cardia . Under a
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separate king at the time of the Persian
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wars, they were annexed by Alexander I . (498–454 B.c.) to the
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kingdom of
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Macedonia . At the division of Macedonia into four districts by the Romans after the
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battle of Pydna (168) the Bisaltae were included in Macedonia Prima (Livy xlv . 29) . Their country was rich in
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figs, vines and olive trees; the
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silver mines in the mountain range of Dysorum brought in a talent a day to their conqueror Alexander . The Bisaltae are referred to by Virgil (Georgics, iii . 461) in connexion with the treatment of the diseases of sheep . The fact that their eponymus is said to have been the son of Helios and Ge points to a very early settlement in the district . See Smith's
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Diet. of Greek and
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Roman Geography; M . Ihm in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie, iii.
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part i .

(1897) ; W . Tomaschek,

Die alien Thraker (Vienna, 1893) ; and for the coins of the Bisaltic kings, B . V . Head, Historia Numorum, p . 178 .

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