Therma

For the modern municipality of Thessaloniki Prefecture, see Thermi

For the ancient city in Sicily, see Termini Imerese.

Therma (Therme) (Θέρμα,Θέρμη ) was a Greek city founded by Eretrians or Corinthians in late 7th century BC in ancient Mygdonia (which was later incorporated into Macedon), situated at the northeastern extremity of a great gulf of the Aegean Sea, the Thermaic Gulf. Therma was later renamed Thessalonica by Cassander.

References

• Herodotus, the Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books, with Introduction Reginald Walter Macan
• The Letters to the Thessalonians by Gene L. Green
• From Mycenae to Constantinople: The Evolution of the Ancient City By Richard Allan Tomlinson
• Hidryma Meletōn Chersonēsou tou Haimou (Thessalonikē, Greece)

External links

• Ancient coinage from Therma

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