Description: GreceAncienne_060 1835 print EDESSA (VODEN), MACEDONIA, GREECE, #60 Print from steel engraving titled Edesse, published in a volume of L'Univers Pittoresque, Paris, approx. page size is 21 x 13 cm, approx. image size 12 x 8 cm. Edessa, Modern Greek Édhessa, chief city, nomós (department) of Pélla, Macedonia, Greece, on a steep bluff above the valley of the Loudhiás Potamós (river). A swift, fragmented stream flowing through the town was known as the Skirtos (“leaper”) in ancient times and since the Middle Ages as the Vódhas (Slavic voda, “water”) and now as the Edhessaíos Potamós. Its waterfalls have been threatened by the building of a hydroelectric power station at Agra, 2 mi (3 km) east of the town. A prominent trading and agricultural centre, it also manufactures carpets and textiles and is the seat of the metropolitan bishop of Edessa and Pella (Pélla). The assumption that Edessa was the location of Aigai, the first capital of ancient Macedonia, was seriously challenged by the discovery in 1977 of royal tombs of Macedonian leaders at Verghina, southeast of Véroia, including one identified as that of Philip II. In Roman times Edessa was a stop on the Via Egnatia connecting the Adriatic Sea with the Aegean Sea, and a Roman or Byzantine bridge span of that highway survives in the town. Fought over by the Bulgarians, Byzantines, and Serbs, Edessa was taken by the Turks in the 15th century. In 1912 it passed to Greece. Pop. (1981) 16,054.
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Type: Print
Size Type/ Largest Dimension: Small (Up to 14'')
Year of Production: 1835
Date of Creation: 1800-1899
Style: Realism
Original/Reproduction: Original Print
Print Type: Engraving
