Berga
Βέργη
Berga (Βέργη: Eth. Βέργαῖος), a town of Macedonia, lying inland from the mouth of the Strymon (Scymnus Ch. 654; Ptol. 3.13.31) only known as the birthplace of the writer Antiphanes, whose tales were so marvellous and incredible as to give rise to a verb Βεργαίζειν, in the sense of telling falsehoods. (Strab. i. p.47, ii. pp. 102, 104; Steph. B. sub voce s. v.; Dict. of Biogr. vol. i. p. 204.) Leake places Berga near the modern Takhynó, upon the shore of the Strymonic lake. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 229.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.