Spercheios Valley

The Spercheios (, Sperkheiós), also known as the Spercheus from its Latin name, is a river in Phthiotis in central Greece. It is long, and its drainage area is . It was worshipped as a god in the ancient Greek religion and appears in some collections of Greek mythology. In antiquity, its upper valley was known as Ainis. In AD 997, its valley was the site of the Battle of Spercheios, which ended Bulgarian incursions into the Byzantine Empire.

Ypati () is a village and a former municipality in Phthiotis, central peninsular Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Lamia, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 257.504 km2. In 2021 its population was 3,537 for the municipal unit, and 440 for the settlement of Ypati itself. The town has a long history, being founded at the turn of the 5th/4th century BC as the capital of the Aenianes. During the Roman period the town prospered and was regarded as the chief city of Thessaly, as well as a bishopric. It was probably a

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Makrakomi () is a town and a municipality in the western part of the Phthiotis regional unit, in Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Spercheiada.

Greek tribe that resided at the mouth of the river Spercheios

Trachis (, Trakhís) was a region in ancient Greece. Situated south of the river Spercheios, it was populated by the Malians. It was also a polis (city-state).

997 battle of the Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars

Spercheiada () is a town and a former municipality in the western part of Phthiotis, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Makrakomi, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 379.521 km2. The population of Spercheiada municipal unit was 6,530, with 2,470 of them in the town of Spercheiada (2021 census).

Ainis (, , Modern Greek , ) or Aeniania (), was a region of ancient Greece located near Lamia in modern Central Greece, roughly corresponding to the upper valley of the Spercheios river.

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Ravennika or Ravenica was a medieval settlement in Central Greece.

border between Greece and the Ottoman Empire between 1830 and 1832