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In earlier times the Balkan mountains were known as the Haemus Mons. The Balkan Mountain range ( Bulgarian and Стара планина Stara planina, "Old Mountain" 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. The Thracian language was the Indo-European language spoken in ancient times by the Thracians in South-Eastern Europe

In antiquity, the mountain range and the area around it was populated by free Thracian peoples such as the Bessi, Dii, and Satrae. The Bessi ( Vesi) were an independent Thracian tribe who lived in a territory ranging from Moesia to Mount Rhodope in southern Thrace The Dii (also Dioi) were an independent Thracian tribe Swordsmen, who lived among the foothills of Mount Rhodope in Thrace The Satrae were in ancient geography a Thracian people inhabiting part of Mount Pangaeus between the rivers Nestus (Mesta and Strymon Herodotus records that an oracle-shrine of Dionysus (a Thracian god borrowed by Greeks) was located atop one of its mountains. Herodotus of Halicarnassus ( Greek: Hēródotos Halikarnāsseús) was a Greek Historian who lived in the 5th century BC ( 484 BC&ndash In Classical mythology, Dionysus or Dionysos (in Greek, Διόνυσος or Διώνυσος; associated with Roman

John Milton's Sylvarum Liber (Naturam non pati senium, v. John Milton ( 9 December, 1608 – 8 November, 1674) was an English Poet, Prose Polemicist and 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 with Orpheus in his Ode for St. Lofty may refer to Lofty ideal Mount Lofty (disambiguation Lofty's Roach Souffle, a 1990 instrumental Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744 is generally regarded as the greatest English Poet of the eighteenth century best known for his Satirical Orpheus ( Greek: Ὀρφεύς ˈɔrfiəs ( OHR-fee-uhs) or /ˈɔrfjuːs/ ( OHR'-fews) in English is a figure from Greek mythology born in 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.

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Haemus Mons is also a 10 km high mountain on the Jupiter moon Io. TemplateInfobox Planet.--> Io (ˈaɪoʊ, or as Greek

The Balkan Mountain range ( Bulgarian and Стара планина Stara planina, "Old Mountain" Dacia, in ancient geography was the land of the Dacians. It was named by the ancient Hellenes ( Greeks) " Getae " The Bessi ( Vesi) were an independent Thracian tribe who lived in a territory ranging from Moesia to Mount Rhodope in southern Thrace In Greek mythology, King Haemus (Αἷμος Haîmos) of Thrace was the son of Boreas. Montes Haemus is a curving range of mountains that form the southwestern edge of the Mare Serenitatis basin on the Moon.

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