Thessaly and Larissa

Sperchius river is on the southern Phthoitian border. Nessonis and Boibeis are the main lakes. The whole region was once covered in a big lake but an earthquake drained the plains. Nessonis had embankments built by the Larisaians to stop the flooding of arable land. Thessaly was often invaded by the Macedonians to the north. Phillipos liked to invaded the islands adding them to his hegemony; places like Skiathos and Skyros. He simply invaded because they were near to Macedonia, which you can't argue with.
   Thessaly was divided into four parts, Phthoitis Helaiotis Thessalotis and Pelasgiaotis.
  Larisa was a central city in Pelasgiaotis Lapiths moved into the area. They later lived together with the Perrhaibians who moved closer to Dodona in the colder mountains. They were ruled by the Larisians who made them pay tribute until the Macedonians took the land. Perrhaibians were Pelasgians of Krimante and were migrant types.
  Iolkos was razed eventually but it was where Peleus detailed Jason before he  left in the Argo for Chalkis. Pegai or Pagasai named after springs "pegai" or was where the shipbuilding was. This was later razed. This became the naval station at modern Volos.
    Some say Thessaly was ruled by Deukalion who named the southern part Pandora after his mum and the northern part was ruled by his dad Haimon and called Haimonia. It has also been called Hellas after Hellen the son of Deukalion. It was also called Pyrrhia. May have been named after Thessalos son of Herakles.
  There was a big battle where the romans fought Demetrios of the Macedonians at Kynoskephalai.
The roman leader was Titus Quinctus.
   City of Leimone was destroyed. This was a recurring theme in Thessaly with a lot of invaders and migrants coming from all sides, essentially a large plain and good land. There was a Phthiolian Thebes too. Phthoitis is the southern most part.
  Paracheloitai has to be mentioned as it is a posh sounding name.
  The so called metropolis was here and is named due to the amalgamation of three unimportant towns. Ithome was also added. Later Thamai.
    There were good goats on Skyros as well as a sort of variegated white stone that was used in much construction at Rome but eventually it became so cheap it went out of vogue, which was often the case with the fastidious bourgeoisie of Roma. Skyros was famed for Lycomedes and Achilles and the raising of his son Neoptolemus. Macedonians later seized it as they did most of the islands off Magnesia and made them known because of it.
   Larisa preserves its ancestral reputation. Many places throughout Greece and Asia are called Larisa and Larisos. Larisa in Attica is famed for its wine. Larisan Zeus is associated as he loved a tipple.
  Phoenix lived in Farthest Phthoitis, Lord of the Dolopians. Phoenix did not accompany his Dolopians subjects in the battle around Ilion  (Troy ). Homer says it would be absurd if the king took part in the expedition without his subjects or army for that matter. Pelasgian Argos. Phoenic may have been only an advisor to Achilles. He says Phoenix does not go forth into danger at Ilion. Pindar  says Phoenix "led a rash crowd of Dolopians who used the sling and aided the missiles of the horse-taming Danaans" Phoenix was said to be from Ormenion.
   Mount Pindos was in the Pindus mountains. Typhrestos was a Dryopian mountain.
   Antron,  a city subject to Protesilaos. In the Euboian strait there's a reef known as the Ass of Antron. Mt. Othrys. Halos and Demetrias. Pyrasos, a city with a good harbour and nice groves dedicated to Demeter. The Amphrysos flows through it. Part of Thessialotis is subject to Eurypylos, a cousin of Phoenix. At Phyllos there is a sanctuary of Apollo and at Ichnai there us one to Themis.
   Hesiod says of Lake Boibeis in Magnesia "Or as the unwedded maiden who living in the sacred Didymian hills in the Dostian plain in front of Amyros abundant in grapes bathed her foot in the Boibiadian lake"
   Eurypylos was the son of Euaimos, the son of Ormenos who was the son of Kerphios so of Aiolos.