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Lower Macedonia
Lower
Macedonia
(,
Kato Makedonia
) or
Macedonia proper
or
Emathia
is a geographical term used in
Antiquity
referring to the coastal plain watered by the rivers
Haliacmon
,
Axius
on the west and bounded by
Strymon
on the east. Its districts were:
Pieria
,
Bottiaea
,
Amphaxitis
,
Crestonia
,
Mygdonia
,
Anthemous
,
Crousis
and
Bisaltia
. The region corresponds roughly to the modern Greek region of
Central Macedonia
, except for the
Chalcidice
peninsula.
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