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- ↑ Plut. Quaest. Gr. 13. p. 294; Strabo. Geographica . Vol. i. p.61, ix. p. 442. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon 's edition.
- ↑ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 32.13.
- ↑ Ptolemy. The Geography . Vol. 3.13.45.
- ↑ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis . New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 684-685. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Thessalia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . London: John Murray.
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