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BISALTAE

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 991 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BISALTAE , a Thracian See also:

people on the See also:lower Strymon (Struma; Karasu, " See also:black See also:water "), in the See also:district between See also:Amphipolis and See also:Heraclea Sintica on the See also:east and Crestonice on the See also:west. They also made their way into the peninsulas of Acte and Pallene in the See also:south, beyond the See also:river Nestus in the east, and are even said to have raided Cardia. Under a See also:separate See also:king at the See also:time of the See also:Persian See also:wars, they were annexed by See also:Alexander I. (498–454 B.c.) to the See also:kingdom of See also:Macedonia. At the See also:division of Macedonia into four districts by the See also:Romans after the See also:battle of Pydna (168) the Bisaltae were included in Macedonia Prima (See also:Livy xlv. 29). Their See also:country was See also:rich in See also:figs, vines and See also:olive trees; the See also:silver mines in the See also:mountain range of Dysorum brought in a See also:talent a See also:day to their conqueror Alexander. The Bisaltae are referred to by See also:Virgil (Georgics, iii. 461) in connexion with the treatment of the diseases of See also:sheep. The fact that their eponymus is said to have been the son of Helios and Ge points to a very See also:early See also:settlement in the district. See See also:Smith's See also:Diet. of See also:Greek and See also:Roman See also:Geography; M. Ihm in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie, iii. See also:part i.

(1897) ; W. Tomaschek, See also:

Die See also:alien Thraker (See also:Vienna, 1893) ; and for the coins of the Bisaltic See also:kings, B. V. See also:Head, Historia Numorum, p. 178.

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