Atalanta (Bottiaea)

{{short description|Ancient city of Bottiae}}

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Atalanta ({{langx|grc|Ἀταλάντη|Atalante}}) or Allante (Ἀλλάντη) or Allantium was an ancient city of Bottiaea, ancient Macedon, between Gortynia and Europos, in the upper part of the valley of the Axius river, which may have been built by the Bottiaeans before their expulsion by Macedonians to Bottike. Axioupoli of today's Kilkis regional unit claims to be the ancient location. N. G. L. Hammond places it between Athyra, Pella regional unit and Koufalia, Thessaloniki regional unitA History of Macedonia: Historical geography and prehistory By Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, Guy Thompson Griffith Page 171 {{ISBN|0-19-814294-3}} (1972)

Thucydides mentions Atalante, south of Gortynia.{{Cite Thucydides|2.100.3}} Stephanus of Byzantium, Allante (Ἀλλάντη), a city of Arcadia and Macedonia.{{Cite Stephanus|s.v. Ἀλλάντη}} Allantenses are reported among the list of peoples by Plinius (HN 4.53). In the lists of Delphian theorodokoi (230–220 BC),[https://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/237934 BCH 1921:1] col III.1 64 after Ichnae and before Thessalonica, the inscription reads: {{lang|grc|ἐν Ἀλλ[α]ντείωι Ἀνδρόνικος Δίκαιος Χιωνίδου}}, In Allanteion, Andronikos and Dikaios sons of Chionides. In a Roman-era inscription[https://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/152953 SEG 35:753 col I.12] found east of Pella, {{lang|grc|ἡ πόλις Ἀλλανταίων}} ("the city of Allanteans"), honours deified Roman emperors.

{{lang|grc|[Ἀταλα]νταῖοι}}, Atalantaioi, are also mentioned near to Edessaioi and Europaioi in a dedicatory inscription from Argos.[https://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/28136 IG IV 617 line 18]