Pistiros

Pistiros (Greek Πίστιρος ) was an ancient Greek trading settlement in the interior of Thrace in the upper Hebrus Valley, today Wetren ( Oblast Pazardzhik ) in Bulgaria, founded in the mid- 5th century BC

The archaeological research since 1988 has, inter alia, promoted an inscription days, seen from the text, that the inhabitants of Emporion from Maroneia, Thasos, Apollonia and from the Aegean Pistyros came. It may therefore be a more thasitische colony that had the exploitation of ore deposits in the local area, the trade in metals, pottery and wine as well as the transport of commercial goods to the Greek colonies on the coast of the Aegean and the Black Sea to the destination.

Presumably Pistiros a power base for the Thasiten in Thrace. However, it was probably dependent on several native towns and Thracian tribes. Accordingly, living with the Thracian kingdom of Odrysians under Cotys I. was fixed in the contract. Pistiros developed in the second half of the 5th and especially in the 4th century to a powerful, rich and culturally Greek oriented trading town.