Pelasgia
For the modern Greek municipality, see Pelasgia (Phthiotis)
Pelasgia in ancient Greek historical geography may be an earlier toponym of:
- Greece (Hellas)[1]
- Arcadia[2]
- Peloponnese[3]
- Larissa Cremaste a city in Thessaly[4], where the historical Pelasgiotis district existed till Late antiquity.
References
- ^ Ionic Greek: Pelasgiê , Herodotus 2.56.1 the place where this woman was sold in what is now Hellas, but was formerly called Pelasgia, was Thesprotia
- ^ Pausanias, 8.4.1 After "the king Arcas" the land was called Arcadia instead of Pelasgia and its inhabitants Arcadians instead of Pelasgians
- ^ Natural History (Pliny) 4.4 The Peloponnesus, which was formerly called Apia and Pelasgia
- ^ Strabo, Geographica 9. 5. 13,19 it is also called Larisa Pelasgia