Haemus
Proper noun
Meaning
Haemus
(Greek mythology) a king of Thrace, the son of Boreas, who was vain and haughty and compared himself and his wife to Zeus and Hera
Examples
Finlay, p. 442 The following year he based his army in Philippopolis and occupied the length of the military road from the western Haemus Mountains to the Danube, thereby cutting off communications between Samuel's Macedonian heartland and Moesia.
D. Dechev considers that Haemus (Αἷμος) is derived from a Thracian word *saimon, 'mountain ridge'. citation A third possibility is that "Haemus" ( Αἵμος main) derives from the Greek word "haema" ( αἵμα main) meaning 'blood'.
The Roman army methodically pursued and surrounded the survivors at Mount Haemus where an epidemic affected the entrapped Goths.
Roles Carolina Ungher who created the role of Antonina Synopsis :Place: Byzantium and the Haemus mountains.
The boundaries between the Greek and Latin speaking Thrace are placed just above the northern foothills of Haemus mountains.
The word was used by the Ottomans in Rumelia in its general meaning of mountain, as in Kodja-Balkan, Čatal-Balkan, and Ungurus-Balkani, but especially it was applied to the Haemus mountain.