Amyrus

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Amyrus or Amyros ({{langx|grc|Ἄμυρος}}){{Cite Stephanus|s.v.}} was a town and polis (city-state) in Ancient Thessaly,{{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|year= 2004|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn= 0-19-814099-1|chapter= Thessaly and Adjacent Regions|page= 718}} in the western part of Magnesia,{{Cite Pauly|I,2|2011||Amyros 1|Gustav Hirschfeld|RE:Amyros 1|}} situated on a river of the same name falling into the lake Boebēis. It is mentioned by Hesiod as the "vine-bearing Amyrus."Hesiod in {{Cite Strabo|IX, p. 442}} The surrounding country is called the Amyric plain (τὸ Ἀμυρικὸν πέδιον) by Polybius.{{Cite Polybius|5.99}} Modern scholas identify the location of Amyrus at a place called Palaiokastro (old fort) at the modern village of Gerakari.{{Cite Barrington|55}}{{Cite DARE|29298}}