(Ethnicon Μάγνης, Μαγνῆτες/Mágnēs, Magnêtes; IG IX 2,1228 b16: dat. pl. Μαγνείτεσσι/Magneítessi 3rd cent. BC). The Thessalian coastal region of Peneius to the Gulf of Pagasae with a narrow peninsula stretching far to the south, which encloses the Gulf of Pagasae in the east and south, filled up completely by the mountains Ossa and Pelion and their foothills. The east coast toward the open sea was without…
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Meyer, Ernst (Zürich),
Blümel, Wolfgang (Cologne) and
Kaletsch, Hans (Regensburg),
“Magnesia”, in:
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