- Therma
Therma ("Therme") (polytonic|Θέρμα,polytonic|Θέρμη ) was a Greek city founded by Eretrians or
Corinthians in late7th century BC in ancient Mygdonia (which was later incorporated intoMacedon ), situated at the northeastern extremity of a great gulf of theAegean Sea , theThermaic Gulf . Therma was later renamedThessalonica byCassander .References
*Herodotus, the Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books, with Introduction [http://books.google.com/books?um=1&q=Therme%2C+originally+perhaps+a+Greek+colony%2C+but+a+Macedonian+town+at+the+date+when&btnG=Search+Books] Reginald Walter Macan
*The Letters to the Thessalonians [http://books.google.com/books?id=gzwjtKwinR4C&pg=PA10&dq=Therme++colony&sig=eBVS1dxxHci4sGN3DEmx2tmVc_k] by Gene L. Green
*From Mycenae to Constantinople: The Evolution of the Ancient City [http://books.google.com/books?id=1BcLLMg6wNUC&pg=PA123&dq=Therme++colony&sig=8TuCJthvr6pj2_VuWHN9a-rpIGM#PPA123,M1] By Richard Allan Tomlinson
*Hidryma Meletōn Chersonēsou tou Haimou (Thessalonikē, Greece) [http://books.google.com/books?um=1&q=Therme+corinthian+eretrian&btnG=Search+Books]External links
* [http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/macedonia/thermai/t.html Ancient coinage from Therma]
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