Hermes ran to Thessaly, where Apollo was grazing his cattle.

Alexander () was tagus or despot of Pherae in Thessaly, and ruled from 369 BC to 358 BC.

But once the bulk of the Macedonian army had retired, the states of Thessaly feared the return and vengeance of Alexander, and so sent for aid to Thebes, whose policy it was to put a check on any neighbor who might otherwise become too formidable.

In the summer of that year Pelopidas was again sent into Thessaly, in consequence of fresh complaints against Alexander.

Later Alexios V was blinded and deserted by his father-in-law, who fled from the crusaders into Thessaly.

This was called the Great Idea ( Megali Idea ), and it was sustained by almost continuous rebellions against Ottoman rule in Greek-speaking territories, particularly Crete, Thessaly and Macedonia.

Pelias ( Aeson's half-brother ) was very power-hungry, and he wished to gain dominion over all of Thessaly.

The horse was an appropriate symbol of Thessaly, a land of plains, which was well known for its horses.

It appears in early times, when Thessaly was mainly governed by a few aristocratic families, as an important city under the rule of the Aleuadae, whose authority extended over the whole district of Pelasgiotis.

As the chief city of ancient Thessaly, Larissa was directly annexed by Philip II of Macedon in 344, and from then on Larissa was under Macedonian control ; in 196 B. C.

As the chief town and military base of Ottoman Thessaly, Larissa was a predominantly Muslim city.

The town was noted for its trade fair in the 17th and 18th centuries, while the seat of the pasha of Thessaly was also transferred there in 1770.

In 1881, the city, along with the rest of Thessaly, was incorporated into the Kingdom of Greece.

Thus, in August 480 BC, when the Persian army was approaching Thessaly, the Allied fleet sailed to Artemisium, and the Allied army marched to Thermopylae.

Peleus was the son of Aeacus, king of the island of Aegina, and Endeïs, the oread of Mount Pelion in Thessaly ; he was the father of Achilles.

The kingdom, centered in the northeastern part of the Greek peninsula, was bordered by Epirus to the west, Paeonia to the north, the region of Thrace to the east and Thessaly to the south.

Control of Thessaly meant Philip was now closely involved in the politics of central Greece.

The Battle of Salamis ( September, 480 BC ) was won by the Greek fleet, after which Xerxes set up a winter camp in Thessaly.

Phoenix was said to have died on his way back from Troy and to have been buried by Neoptolemus either in Eion, Macedonia, or in Trachis, Thessaly.

), based on his 1921 solo field-trip to Thessaly and on a re-examination of the sources, is now widely accepted by historians.

The Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus is a widely distributed species found throughout much of the Palearctic ecozone. In Europe it is common in most countries but absent from northern Scandinavia, peninsular Italy ( found in North Italy ), Portugal, Southern and central Spain ( found in Cantabrian Mountains and the eastern Pyrenees ), the Mediterranean islands and North Africa. In Greece it is found in Northern regions ( Macedonia, Thessaly ) Beyond Europe it is found across much of temperate Asia including Russia, Siberia, Mongolia, China and Korea.

Another legend held that Apollo walked to Delphi from the north and stopped at Tempe, a city in Thessaly, to pick laurel ( also known as bay tree ) which he considered to be a sacred plant.

Clement attributes his source to a " collection of marvels " by a certain " Monimos " of whom nothing is known, and claims, in pursuit of his thesis that daimon-worshipers become as cruel as their gods, that in " Pella of Thessaly human sacrifice is offered to Peleus and Cheiron, the victim being an Achaean ".

Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, and appears thus in Homer's Odyssey.

Following the campaigns of the Byzantine general Staurakios in 782-783, the Byzantine Empire recovered Thessaly ( then known as Hellas ), taking many Slavs as prisoners.

The term subsequently spread by word of mouth, until tsipouro gradually became known as ouzo .— The Times of Thessaly, 1959.

After the collapse of the Byzantine Empire in the Fourth Crusade, the numerous Aromanians ( Valachians ) of Thessaly and the southern regions of Macedonia and Epirus established their own state, and the area was known as Great Wallachia ( Vlahia ).

The only usable harbor in Thessaly was located on the Gulf of Pagasae, as it was known in antiquity ( now the Gulf of Volos ).

Until the annexation of Thessaly in 1881, it was a border city ( the borders were drawn at a site known as " Taratsa " just north of Lamia ).

Herodes Atticus and Regilla controlled a large area of land around the Third Mile of the Appian Way outside of Rome, which was known as the " Triopio " ( from Triopas, King of Thessaly ).

Farsala (), known in Antiquity as Pharsalos or Pharsalus (), is a city in southern Thessaly, in Greece.

To the Greeks it was known as Sidzara, but the Seleucid dynasty renamed it Larissa, after the town of the same name in Thessaly from which many colonists came.

Gyaros () also locally known as Gioura ( unrelated to Gioura of Thessaly, also unpopulated ) is an arid and unpopulated Greek island of the northern Cyclades near in the islands Andros and Tinos, with an area of 23 square kilometres.

The ' Crocus Field ' in Thessaly matches this description, and the battle is therefore now known as the Battle of Crocus Field ; however, this plain is so large that firmly identifying the battle-site has proved impossible.

During this time he served as shepherd for King Admetus of Pherae in Thessaly.

During the next three years, Alexander seemed to renew his attempts to subdue the states of Thessaly, especially Magnesia and Phthiotis, for upon the expiry of the truce, in 364 BC, they again applied to Thebes for protection from him.

After trapping Caesar in Thessaly, the prominent Senators in Pompey's camp began to argue loudly for a more decisive victory.

It is crucial, however, not to underestimate the creative and transforming power of subsequent tradition: for instance, Achilles, the most important character of the Iliad, is strongly associated with southern Thessaly, but his legendary figure is interwoven into a tale of war whose kings were from the Peloponnese.

The city remained in Ottoman hands until Thessaly became part of the independent Greek kingdom in 1881, except for a period where Ottoman forces re-occupied it during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.

Mardonius wintered in Boeotia and Thessaly, and the Athenians were thus able to return to their city, which had been burnt and razed by the Persians, for the winter.

* Byzantine-Ottoman Wars – The Ottoman governor of Thessaly Turakhan Beg breaks through the Hexamilion wall for the second time and ravages the Peloponnese peninsula.

In many other regions, festivities of smaller extent are organized, focused on the reenactment of traditional carnevalic customs ; for example those held in Tyrnavos ( Thessaly ), Kozani ( West Macedonia ), Rethymno ( Crete ) and in Xanthi ( East Macedonia and Thrace ).

** Byzantine-Ottoman Wars – The Ottoman governor of Thessaly, Turakhan Beg, breaks through the Hexamilion wall for the fourth time and ravages the Peloponnese peninsula, to prevent the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea from assisting Constantinople during the final Ottoman siege of the imperial capital.

However, Athens had made overtures for peace, and when Philip again moved south, peace was sworn in Thessaly.

Shortly after Philip II of Macedon was appointed Archon of Thessaly, and Thessaly was thereafter associated with the Macedonian Kingdom for the next centuries.

The alluvial soils of the Pineios Basin and its tributaries make Thessaly a vital agricultural area, particularly for the production of grain, cattle, and sheep.

The nearly landlocked Gulf of Pagasai provides a natural harbor at Volos for shipping the agricultural products from the plains just to the west and chromium from the mountains of Thessaly.

In Homer's epic, the Odyssey, Odysseus visits the kingdom of Aeolus, and this is the old name for Thessaly.

Like Simonides and Pindar, however, Bacchylides composed lyrics to appeal to the sophisticated tastes of a social elite and his patrons, though relatively few in number, covered a wide, geographical area around the Mediterranean, including for example Delos in The Aegean Sea, Thessaly to the north of mainland Greece and Sicily or Magna Graecia in the west.

* Convicted in Sparta on the charge of accepting a bribe from the Aleudae family whilst leading an expedition to Thessaly against the family for their collaboration with the Persians, the Spartan King Leotychidas flees to the temple of Athena Alea in Tegea, Arcadia.

Thus, the strategic position of Antony and Octavian became quite serious, since the already depleted regions of Macedonia and Thessaly were unable to supply their army for long, while Brutus could easily receive supplies from the sea.

It figures in the tale of Jason and his band of Argonauts, who set out on a quest by order of King Pelias for the fleece in order to place Jason rightfully on the throne of Iolcus in Thessaly.

He then fled to Thessaly ; the Amphictyons at Pylae had offered a reward for his death.