Pieria
Πιερία
Pieria (Πιερία).
1.
A district in Macedonia. [PIERES]
2.
A district in Syria; a name given by the Macedonians to the northern coast of Syria, on the right bank of the Orontes. The principal mountain in this district, and which was a southern branch of the Amanus, was also called Pieria. (Strab. xvi. pp. 749, 751; Ptol. 5.15.8.) The chief town was Seleuceia, which is frequently distinguished from other towns of the same name by the addition of ἐν Πιερίἁ, especially on coins. (Eckhel, vol. iii. p. 324; Cic. Att. 11.2. 0)
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.