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Olympene

Ὀλυμπηνή

Olympene (Ὀλυμπηνή), a district of Mysia, on the northern slope of Mount Olympus, from which it derived its name. (Strab. xii. pp. 571, 576.) The inhabitants of the district were called Olympeni (Ὀλυμπηνοί, Strab. xii. p.574; Ptol. 5.2.15) or Olympieni (Ὀλυμπιηνοί, Hdt. 7.74; comp. MYSIA).

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.