Pelasgiotis

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Pelasgiotis was an ancient district of Thessaly in Greece, known for its fertile plains and strategic location in the northeastern part of the region.

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Label Occurrences
Pelasgiotis canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient district
historical region
borderedBy Histiaeotis
Magnesia
Phthiotis
linked to: Fthiotis

Thessaliotis
linked to: Thessaly
category Ancient Thessaly
linked to: Thessaly

Historical regions of Greece
containsCity Atrax
Crannon
Demetrias
Gyrton
Larissa
Phalanna
Pherae
Scotussa
economyBasedOn agriculture
horse breeding
ethnicGroupsInAntiquity Pelasgians
Thessalians
hasAgriculture grain cultivation
pastoralism
hasGeography broad alluvial plain
hasNameOrigin Pelasgians
hasNotableCityRole Larissa as major Thessalian center
knownFor fertile plains
strategic location
languageInAntiquity Ancient Greek
locatedIn ancient Greece
linked to: Greek Antiquity

northeastern Thessaly
linked to: Thessaly
mentionedBy Livy
Ptolemy
linked to: Claudius Ptolemaeus

Strabo
modernCountry Greece
modernEquivalentRegion part of regional unit Larissa
partOf Thessaly
politicalStructure federal Thessalian League influence
strategicImportance access to Aegean Sea via Pagasaean Gulf
control of routes between Thessaly and Macedonia
timePeriod Classical antiquity
Hellenistic period
Roman period
traversedBy Peneus River
linked to: Pineios River
wasAdministrativeDivisionOf Thessalian tetrarchy
linked to: Thessalian League

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Magnetes borderedBy Pelasgiotis
Larisa (ancient city) subregion Pelasgiotis
Thessalian League hasSubdivision Pelasgiotis