Berge or Berga ( Ancient Greek : Βέργη or Βέργα ) was a Greek town of ancient Macedonia , in what is now the Serres regional unit in northern Greece.
9-764: Berge may refer to: Places [ edit ] Berge (Thrace) an Athenian colony in Thrace, north of Amphipolis Berge, Teruel , a municipality in Teruel Province, Aragon, Spain in Germany: Berge, Brandenburg , a municipality in the district of Prignitz, in Brandenburg Berge, Lower Saxony , a municipality in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony Berge, Saxony-Anhalt ,
18-513: A locality in the town Gardelegen, Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, in Saxony-Anhalt Surname [ edit ] Berge (surname) See also [ edit ] Burj (disambiguation) Burg (disambiguation) Berg (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Berge . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
27-470: A publication now in the public domain : Smith, William , ed. (1854–1857). "Berga". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . London: John Murray. 40°54′40″N 23°30′30″E / 40.910982°N 23.508247°E / 40.910982; 23.508247 Nigrita Nigrita ( Greek : Νιγρίτα ) is a city and a municipality in the Serres regional unit , Macedonia , Greece . Since
36-499: A self-sufficient city in Hellenistic and Roman times. It was the homeland of Antiphanes of Berge (4th century BCE), writer of the book Apista (Unbelievable Stories), from which the verb bergaḯzein ( Greek : βεργαΐζειν ) was created to denote someone telling incredible stories. Its site is located about 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of modern Nigrita . [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from
45-563: A village of the Bisaltae and Ptolemy writes that it was in the territory of the Odomanti . Berge was a rich city that minted her own coins from 476 to 356 BCE depicting Silenus with a nymph or Silenus or a carp fish or square crisscross in form of swastikas and had the following words inscribed, (ΒΕΡΓ) or (ΒΕΡΓΑΙ) or (ΒΕΡΓΑΙΟΥ). Berge began to lose its importance after the foundation of Amphipolis , it continued however being
54-612: The 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Visaltia , of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 160.888 km . It is situated in the wide plain south of the river Strymonas , at the northern foot of the Kerdylio mountains, in the southern part of the Serres regional unit. Nigrita is located 22 km south of Serres , and 92 km northeast of Thessaloniki . Near Nigrita have been found several sites of ancient settlements of
63-579: The Hellenistic and Roman times. One of them was perhaps the site of the ancient city Bisaltia , capital of the Bisaltae , which is known by Stephanus of Byzantium. In the Ottoman tahrir defter (number 7) of 1478 ( Hijri 883), the settlement is recorded as a village with the name Nigrita , within the kaza of Siroz . At the beginning of the 19th century, it was a prosperous town where cotton, silver and copper were processed. The town became
72-409: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Berge&oldid=1120840955 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Berge (Thrace) The town
81-517: Was located inland from the mouth of the Strymon , in the region of Bisaltia , north-west of Amphipolis , and was founded by Thasians as a dependent colony and emporion sometime in the 5th century BCE. The town was a member of the Delian League , and according to N. G. L. Hammond was colonized by 1000 Athenians . Later sources call it a polis , but according to Strabo it was
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