Haemus Mons
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Haemus Mons
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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 Emos. Another classic etymology derives the name 'Haemos' from the myth about the fight of Zeus and the dragon Typhon: In antiquity, the mountain range and the area around it was populated by free Thracian peoples such as the Bessi, Dii, and Satrae. Herodotus records
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Ancient name for the Balkan Mountains
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