Toumba

The term Toumba (also Toumpa; plural Toumben ) is in archeology the name for a populated hills of the Bronze and Early Iron Age in Macedonia.

Etymology

The name derives etymologically from the ancient Greek τύμβος from what is literally with > tomb "or" grave hill < translate (see Anglo-Saxon and Latin tumulus tomb ).

Definition

Seen archaeologically it but this is not at Toumba - as initially suspected - a rich grave mound, but the locus typicus of a settlement mound from the Bronze and early Iron Age (second millennium BC ), as he is often found in the northern Greek Macedonia.

Examples

  • Toumba Thessaloniki
  • Toumba Kastanas
  • Toumba Assiros
  • Toumba Hagios Elias, now the hill of Kalamaria
  • Toumba Axiochorion ( Varderoftsa )
  • Toumba Agios Mamas
  • Toumba Gona
  • Toumba Tsaoutsitsa ( Chauchitsa )
  • Toumba Valoumenou at Chaeronea
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