Pæonia

A form of Paeonia — The land of the Paeonians, a people inhabiting between the lands of Macedonians, Thracians, and Illyrians.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. archaicArchaic spelling of Paeonia.

    Immediately to the north of Lower Macedonia, i.e. to the north of Macedonian Pæonia, Bottiaïs, and Mygdonia, but without the confines of these provinces, was situated, as we learn from Thucydidesᵇ, the Pæonian city of DOBERUSᶜ.

    1830, Karl Otfried Müller, The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, appendix I, §. 11, page 477
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