Strymon

British  

/ ˈstraɪmən /

noun

1. transliteration of the Greek name for the Struma

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Strymon

He should be pleased, however, he said, if the king would assign him a certain small territory in Thrace, or, rather, on the borders between Thrace and Macedonia, near the mouth of the River Strymon.

From Darius the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

The neglect of Athens was a great mistake, for Amphipolis commanded the passage over the Strymon, and shut up Macedonia from the east, and was, moreover, easily defensible by sea.

From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord

The bridge over the Strymon was also opened, by which all the eastern allies of Athena were approachable by land.

From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord

On the banks of the Strymon, just where the river sweeps round in a sharp curve, west and east, the Athenians had founded, six years before the outbreak of the war, the colony of Amphipolis.

From Stories from Thucydides by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell

With the subjugation of the Paeonians and the crossing of the Strymon, Megabyzus reached the border of an empire, the Macedonian kingdom, the central district of which lay between the Axius and the Haliaemon.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker

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