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Menander, Monostichoi, 247

Spanish (DGE)

-ων, τά
• Alolema(s): Ἄβδαρα Ptol.Geog.2.4.7
• Morfología: [dat. plu. -οισιν Herod.2.58]
1 Abdera ciudad griega de Tracia, Hdt.1.168, Anacr.191.1, Th.2.97.1, Herod.2.58, Str.7.fr.44, 46.
2 Adra (en Almería) ciudad de la Bética, Str.3.4.3, Ptol.Geog.l.c.

Wikipedia EN

Abdera (Greek: Ἄβδηρα) is a municipality in the Xanthi regional unit of Thrace, Greece. In classical antiquity, it was a major Greek polis on the Thracian coast.

The name Abdera is of Phoenician origin and was shared in antiquity by Abdera, Spain and a town near Carthage in North Africa. It was variously Hellenized as Ἄβδηρα (Ábdēra), Αὔδηρα (Aúdēra), Ἄβδαρα (Ábdara), Ἄβδηρον (Ábdēron), and Ἄβδηρος (Ábdēros), before being Latinized as Abdera. Greek legend attributed the name to an eponymous Abderus who fell nearby and was memorialized by Hercules's founding of a city at the location.


Abdera was an ancient Carthaginian and Roman port on a hill above the modern Adra on the southeastern Mediterranean coast of Spain. It was located between Malaca (now Málaga) and Carthago Nova (now Cartagena) in the district inhabited by the Bastuli.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ων (τά) :
Abdère, cité de Thrace.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

Ἄβδηρα: τά Абдеры (город во Фракии Her.).