Calindoia

Ancient Bottiaean city in Mygdonia

Calindoia or Kalindoia (Greek: Καλίνδοια)^[1]^[2] was an ancient Bottiaean city in Mygdonia (modern Thessaloniki regional unit, Kalamoto village). The name also comes down to us in the form Calindaea.^[3] The town also bore the names Alindoia and Tripoiai.^[4]

Kalindoia is first reported in the Athenian-Bottiaean alliance of 422 BCE and later in the Epidaurian list of Theorodokoi of 360/59 BCE. The name of Theodorokos was Pausanias, possibly the same as Pausanias, the pretender to the Macedonian throne in 368 and 360 BCE.^[5] It was refounded as a Macedonian city in the late 4th century BCE. A dedicatory inscription to Apollo was found at Toumbes Kalamotou; it records a list of priests of Asclepius (archpriest Agathanor) who had fulfilled their duties from the time when King Alexander gave Kalindoia to Makedones. Priests of Asclepius were frequently eponymous officials (archontes) in Macedon.

The site of Kalindoia is located near modern Kalamoto.^[4]^[6]

References

^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.12.
^ LSJ : kalindêthra place for horses to roll after exercise, kalindeomai roll about, wallow
^ Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Mygdonia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
^ ^a ^b Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 50, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^ An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis Page 829 by Mogens Herman Hansen, Thomas Heine Nielsen ISBN 0-19-814099-1
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

Epigraphical Database Epidaurian Theorodokoi-IG IV²,1 94-Decree of Kalindoia Meletemata 11 K31 SEG 36.626
Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis Page 114 by Mogens Herman Hansen, Kurt A. Raaflaub ISBN 3-515-06759-0
The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor Page 94 by Getzel M. Cohen ISBN 0-520-08329-6