Edoni

The Edoner (also Edonen, Edoni, ancient Greek Ἤδωνες or Ἠδῶνες ) were a Thracian tribe that had its original residence in Mygdonien, between the rivers Axios and Strymon, in today's Prefecture of Thessaloniki. Lycurgus was a mythical king of Edonen. From Mygdonien they son of Perdikas II, and his ancestors were of Argive Aklexandros, distributed and settled in the lower Strymontal, southwest of Pangaion, down. Thus they were in ancient times, the immediate neighbors to the west of the Thasitischen Peraea. Herodotus reports that Xerxes met them in the eastern Strymonbereich. In the first experiments of the Athenians, to establish a colony in the Strymon Delta at Eion, it was the Persian army under Megabazos BC managed 513/512, to subdue the Edoner effortlessly. Megabazos warned Darius to allow the Histaios to found a city in Edoner country. Aristagoras, son of Histaios was killed in the area of Myrkinos of Edonern. The unhindered passage of the Persian army under Xerxes through the land of Edoner was ensured by the previous enterprises of Mardonius. Although the Persian power had strengthened over the Thracian tribes, they a few years later rendered fierce resistance against the Athenians, first as it Kimon 470/69 BC managed to subjugate the Persian front, Thracian Eion and further penetrate into the Thracian inland, there to plunder Thracian villages, and then 469/68 BC, when the Athenians tried after the Persian Wars, to the east of the Strymon estuary settle and 465/4 BC in penetrating into the hinterland of the Thracians of the Edonern were repulsed at Drabeskos River with great losses. The ancient cities of Amphipolis with the port city of Eion, Drabeskos and Myrkinos were witnesses edonischer culture.