Bottiaea

thumb|right|304x304px|Map of the Kingdom of Macedon with Bottiaea (Bottia) located in the central districts of the kingdom. The Bottiaeans migrated to Bottike in Western [[Chalkidiki.]] Bottiaea (Greek: Bottiaia) was a geographical region of Lower Macedonia and an administrative district of the Macedonian Kingdom. It was previously inhabited by the Bottiaeans, a people of uncertain origin, later expelled by the Makedones into Bottike (Chalcidice). In Roman times it was replaced by Emathia as a geographical term.

==Geography== Bottiaea comprised the northeastern part of Imathia and the area between the Loudias and the Axios Rivers (the western area of today's Giannitsa) in modern Pella (regional unit).