Derived from tessares/pettares "four", from a division into four parts (Thessalian tetrarchy; Phthiotis, Thessaliotis, Histiaeotis and Pelasgiotis), according to G. N. Khatzidaki, "Koskylmatia", Athena 8 (1896), p. 119
εκ του πέτταρες ( = τέτταρες, δια την εις τετράδας διαίρεσιν της χώρας, ἤτοι εις Θεσσαλιώτιδα, Φθιώτιδα, Πελασγιώτιδα και Ἱστιαιώτιδα).
Daniēl Magnēs, Lexikon historikomythikon kai geōgraphikon (1834), 161f..
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Derived from tessares/pettares "four", from a division into four parts (Thessalian tetrarchy; Phthiotis, Thessaliotis, Histiaeotis and Pelasgiotis), according to G. N. Khatzidaki, "Koskylmatia", Athena 8 (1896), p. 119
εκ του πέτταρες ( = τέτταρες, δια την εις τετράδας διαίρεσιν της χώρας, ἤτοι εις Θεσσαλιώτιδα, Φθιώτιδα, Πελασγιώτιδα και Ἱστιαιώτιδα).
Daniēl Magnēs, Lexikon historikomythikon kai geōgraphikon (1834), 161f..
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Derived from tessares/pettares "four", from a division into four parts (Thessalian tetrarchy; Phthiotis, Thessaliotis, Histiaeotis and Pelasgiotis), according to G. N. Khatzidaki, "Koskylmatia", Athena 8 (1896), p. 119
εκ του πέτταρες ( = τέτταρες, δια την εις τετράδας διαίρεσιν της χώρας, ἤτοι εις Θεσσαλιώτιδα, Φθιώτιδα, Πελασγιώτιδα και Ἱστιαιώτιδα).
Daniēl Magnēs, Lexikon historikomythikon kai geōgraphikon (1834), 161f..