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Magnesia may refer to: Magnesia (hypothetical city), a future colony of Knossos, imagined in Plato's Laws; Magnesia (regional unit), the southeastern area of Thessaly in central Greece; Ancient Magnesia, a historical region of Greece with borders differing from the modern regional unit; Magnesia ad Sipylum, a city of Lydia, now Manisa in Turkey
Magnesia or Magnesia on the Maeander (Ancient Greek: Μαγνησία ἡ πρὸς Μαιάνδρῳ or Μαγνησία ἡ ἐπὶ Μαιάνδρῳ; Latin: Magnesia ad Maeandrum) was an ancient Greek city in Ionia, considerable in size, at an important location commercially and strategically in the triangle of Priene, Ephesus and Tralles.
The name magnesium originates from the Greek word for locations related to the tribe of the Magnetes, either a district in Thessaly called Magnesia [52] or Magnesia ad Sipylum, now in Turkey. [53] It is related to magnetite and manganese , which also originated from this area, and required differentiation as separate substances.
Magnesia was created as a prefecture. In addition to the territory of the present regional unit of Magnesia, the Magnesia Prefecture included the Northern Sporades group of islands (Skiathos, Skopelos and Alonnisos). As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the prefecture was split into the Magnesia and Sporades regional units. At ...
Anciently, Magnesia (Ancient Greek: Μαγνησία) was a region of Ancient Greece, eventually absorbed by ancient Thessaly. Originally inhabited by the Magnetes (Μάγνητες), Magnesia was the long and narrow slip of country between Mounts Ossa and Pelion on the west and the sea on the east, and extending from the mouth of the Peneius ...
Magnesium oxide (Mg O), or magnesia, is a white hygroscopic solid mineral that occurs naturally as periclase and is a source of magnesium (see also oxide). It has an empirical formula of MgO and consists of a lattice of Mg 2+ ions and O 2− ions held together by ionic bonding .
Articles relating to ancient Magnesia, a region of Ancient Greece, eventually absorbed by ancient Thessaly.Originally inhabited by the Magnetes (Μάγνητες), Magnesia was the long and narrow slip of country between Mounts Ossa and Pelion on the west and the sea on the east, and extending from the mouth of the Peneius on the north to the Pagasaean Gulf on the south.
Map showing ancient Thessaly. Meliboea is shown to the centre right in Magnesia. Meliboea or Meliboia (Ancient Greek: Μελίβοια) was a town and polis (city-state) [1] of Magnesia in ancient Thessaly, mentioned by Homer, in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad, as one of the places subject to Philoctetes. [2]