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Haemus Mons
In earlier times the
Balkan Mountains
were known as the
Haemus Mons
. It is believed that the name is derived from a
Thracian
word
*saimon
, 'mountain ridge', which is unattested but conjectured as the original Thracian form of Greek
Emos
.
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