- east. In the
Geography of
Claudius Ptolemy, the
river is
referred to as
Nestus (Νέστος), and is said to form the
boundary between ancient Macedonia and...
-
Tagiades nestus, the
Papuan snow flat or
Nestus flat, is a
butterfly of the
family Hesperiidae. It is
found on the
Australian islands in the
Torres Strait...
-
Jacob Ernst Thomann von Hagelstein, or
Nestus Thomann (c. 1588 – 10
October 1653) was a
German Baroque painter.
Hagelstein was born in Lindau. Houbraken...
- lion.
According to
Herodotus lions occurred between Achelous river and
Nestus,
being plentiful between Akanthos and Thermi. When
Xerxes advanced near...
- a
Thracian people,
inhabiting part of
Mount Pangaeus between the
rivers Nestus (Mesta) and
Strymon (Struma).
According to Herodotus, they were independent...
- Edonides) (Gr****: Ἠδωνιοί) were a
Thracian people who
dwelt mostly between the
Nestus and the
Strymon rivers in
southern Thrace, but also once
dwelt west of the...
- Βίστων or Βιστών) was the son of Ares and Callirrhoe,
daughter of river-god
Nestus. His two
brothers were
Odomas and
Edonus (eponyms of two
Thracian tribes...
- AD 44 In the same year, the
portion of
Macedonia between the
Hebrus and
Nestus rivers in the east and the
island of
Thasos were
handed over to the newly...
-
beside Lake Bistonis, near
Abdera "extending
westward as far as the
river Nestus". It was
through the land of the
Bistones that "Xerxes
marched on his invasion...
-
Although Gallienus had
already inflicted some
damage on them at the
Battle of
Nestus, Claudius, not long
after being named emperor,
followed this up by winning...
