Side (Ainis)

38°56′25″N 22°22′18″E / 38.94018°N 22.3717°E / 38.94018; 22.3717 Side (Ancient Greek: Σίδη) was a place on the border between the two cities of Lamia and Hypata, in Ainis in ancient Thessaly. It is mentioned only in a boundary adjudication inscription of the Hadrianic period, CIL 3.586.

Its site is identified with an ancient fortress on a hill near Lygaria (Lygaria was, until 1920, called Tsopalades) in Phthiotida regional unit.

References

  1. ↑ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 684. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  2. ↑ Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.