- Haemus Mons
In earlier times the
Balkan mountains were known as the Haemus Mons. It is believed that the name is derived from a Thracian word "*saimon", 'mountain ridge', which is unattested but conjectured as the original Thracian form of Greek "Haimos".Fact|date=June 2008In antiquity, the mountain range and the area around it was populated by free Thracian peoples such as the
Bessi ,Dii , andSatrae .Herodotus records that an oracle-shrine ofDionysus (a Thracian god borrowed by Greeks) was located atop one of its mountains.John Milton 's "Sylvarum Liber " ("Naturam non pati senium", v. 29) contains a reference to "lofty Haemus",:"Tunc etiam aërei divulsis sedibus Hæmi":the summit even of lofty Haemus shall crumble;Alexander Pope mentions Haemus in connection withOrpheus in his "Ode for St. Cecilia's Day"::Hark! Haemus resounds with the Bacchanals' cries.In Greek, the Balkan Peninsula was thus known as the Peninsula of Haemus (Χερσόνησος του Αίμου). This naming of the Balkans has some basis amongst today Greeks as well.
Other Uses
Haemus Mons is also a 10 km high mountain on the Jupiter moon Io.
ee also
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Balkan mountains
*Balkan peninsula
*Dacia
*Bessi
*Haemus (the mythical Thracian King)
*Montes Haemus (lunar mountain range)
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