Crossword-Solution: LYDIAS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

When Xerxes had reached Therma he established the army there; and his army encamping there occupied of the land along by the sea no less than this,--beginning from the city of Therma and from Mygdonia it extended as far as the river Lydias and the Haliacmon, which form the boundary between the lands of Bottiaia and Macedonia, mingling their waters together in one and the same stream.

Coming to another village, though he knew it perfectly he assumed it was undiscovered land, and beyond it lay in a field and dozed, his hat over his eyes, and learned how blessed it is to be alone in freedom, even afar from Lydias and Esthers.

The name of the ridge between the Haliacmon and the Lydias is known by the mention of mount Bermius above Berœa;(1883) and Berœa is certainly the modern Veria, or Cara Veria,(1884) near the northern bank of the Haliacmon.

Beyond the Axius, to the west of the stream, immediately after Mygdonia, came BOTTIAIS, which district was on the other side bounded by the united mouth of the Haliacmon and the Lydias;(1895) and thus towards the sea it terminated in a narrow wedge-shaped strip.

The united mouth of the Lydias and Haliacmon, according to Herodotus,(1904) divided Bottiaïs from MACEDONIS; for he can only mean this common mouth when he says that “the rivers Lydias and Haliacmon divide the districts of Bottiaïs and Macedonis, uniting their waters in the same channel.” Further on in the interior the Lydias alone must have been the boundary of Bottiaïs, since otherwise this district would not end in a narrow strip of land; Macedonis, therefore, began on the western bank of the Lydias.