Kalindoia

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For the modern municipality, see Kallindoia

Kalindoia (Greek: Καλίνδοια)^[1] was an ancient city in northern Bottike (see Bottiaea) (modern Thessaloniki Prefecture, Kalamoto village). Kalindoia is recorded in the Epidaurian list of Theorodokoi of 360/59 BC. The name of Theodorokos was Pausanias, possibly the pretender to the Macedonian throne in 368 and 360 BC^[2]. It was refounded as a Macedonian city in the late 4th c.BC. A dedicatory inscription to Apollo was found at Toumbes Kalamotou; it records a list of priests of Asclepius (archpriest Agathanor) who had fulfilled their duties from the time when King Alexander gave Kalindoia to Makedones. Priests of Asclepius were frequently eponymous officials (archontes) in Macedon.

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1. ^ LSJ : kalindêthra place for horses to roll after exercise, kalindeomai roll about, wallow
2. ^ An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis Page 829 by Mogens Herman Hansen, Thomas Heine Nielsen ISBN 0198140991

• Epigraphical Database Epidaurian TheorodokoiIG IV²,1 94-Decree of Kalindoia Meletemata 11 K31 SEG 36.626
• Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis Page 114 by Mogens Herman Hansen, Kurt A. Raaflaub ISBN 3515067590
• The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor Page 94 by Getzel M. Cohen ISBN 0520083296