Demetrias

Demetria (Greek: Δημητριάδα ) was a Greek port city in Magnesia, 1.5 km south of the modern Volos. Along with a lie on the opposite side of the inner bay barrier fortress on the hill Goritsa it was founded in 294 BC by Demetrius I Poliorketes, one of the Successors of Alexander the Great.

During the Hellenistic period, in which the city had its most prosperous phase, with an estimated population of 25,000, controlled the kings of Macedonia Dimitrias from northern Greece. Together with Chalcis and Corinth saw the city as one of the three fetters of Greece.

After the end of the Macedonian kingdom in 168 BC, began a decline that was stopped in the Roman Empire, so that Demetria was also a bishopric in Late Antiquity. In the Byzantine era of the Middle Ages, the city remained fairly significantly and was completely abandoned until around 1600.