Crestonia
Κρηστωνική
Crestonia (Κρηστωνική: Eth.Κρηστωναῖος, Eth. Κρηστωνιήτης: Adj. Κρηστωνικός), a district of Macedonia, which adjoined Mygdonia to the N.; for the Echidorus, which flowed through Mygdonia into the gulf near the marsh of the Axius, had its sources in Crestonia. (Hdt. 7.127.) It was chiefly occupied by a remnant of Pelasgi, who spoke a different language from their neighbours. (Hdt. 1.57; comp. Thuc. 4.109.) In Thucydides (2.99) the name should not be written Γρηστωνία, but Κρηστωνία. Crestonia contained the town of Creston or Crestone (Κρήστων, Κρηστώνη, Steph. B. sub voce and Gallicum (Kilkítj), a place situated 16 M. P. from Thessalonica, on the Roman road to Stobi (Pent. Tab.). (Leake, North. Greece. vol. iii. p. 440.)
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.