Sintice

Sintice or Sintike (Greek: Σιντική) was an ancient region and later district of the kingdom of Macedon. It was located north of Bisaltia and Odomantike up to Messapio mount and west of Crestonia and South Paeonia to Strymon river and Orvilos mount. Its name is derived from the Sintians, a tribe which once inhabited the region. Beyond it, it was stretched Medike which was held by the powerful Thracian tribe of Medi with which the Macedonians were in constant wars.

The region of Sintice was first inhabited by the tribe of Sintians (Greek: Σίντιοι, Σίντοι). These people were described by Strabo as Thracians, but other historians claimed that they were Pelasgians, close related with the indigenous inhabitants of Samothrace. Homer describes them with the adjective "Agriophones" (Ἀγριόφωνες, lit. "of wild speech").

There were many towns in Sintice of which we know Heraclea Sintica, Paroecopolis, Skotousa, Gareskos, Orbelia and Tristolos. The most important of them was Heraclea, which was built by Amyntas III. The Macedonian king had achieved a great victory against barbarians and because of that he built the town in honor to Heracles, from whom the Macedonian kings claimed descent. He fortified the town with impregnable walls, parts of which can be seen to this day. In the times of Antigonid dynasty the town became capital of Sintice district and seat of the eparch of Paeonia as the historian Titus Livius mentions.

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