Chen (Thessaly)

38°48′N 22°12′E Chen (Ancient Greek: Χήν),[1] or Chenai (Χῆναι),[2] was a town and polis (city-state) of Oetaea in ancient Thessaly.[3] It is mentioned by Pausanias.[2]

Its location is on Mount Oeta.[4]

References
  1. Diogenes Laërtius, 1.106.
  2. Pausanias (1918). "24.1". Description of Greece. Vol. 10. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  3. Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 709. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
  4. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.


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