Definitions for Pieria

Pieria Pi·e·ri·a

Spelling: [pahy-eer-ee-uh]
IPA: /paɪˈɪər i ə/

Pieria is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in Pieria (aeiipr).

Definitions for Pieria

noun

  1. a coastal region in NE Greece, W of the Gulf of Salonika.

Examples for Pieria

They were likewise to be found in the countries of Edonia, Pieria, and Peonia: in one of which they founded a city and temple.

Pieria's: used for Pierian, from Pierus, a mountain of Thessaly sacred to the muses.

Alorus is considered as belonging to Bottiæa and Pydna to Pieria.

Where could a poet be better lulled to rest than among the black-leaved hollows of Pieria?

The principal place of his residence is thought to have been in Pieria near mount Hmus.

Meanwhile let the maidens of Pieria attend thee; and, with me for guide, ascend into the groves of high Parnassus.'

There were however some curious hymns, which used to be of old sung in Pieria, and Samothracia; and which Onomacritus copied.

The people of Pieria were supposed to have been of Thracian origin.

The oldest seat of the worship of the Muses was Pieria in Thrace, where they were supposed to have first seen the light of day.

The Pieria rapæ, or imported cabbage butterfly (Fig. 253, male) is now also abundant.

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