City
Larissa
Larisa, Greece
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Larissa lies beneath the modern city of Larisa in Greece, on the right bank of the river Peneios, and was the chief town of Thessaly. The river itself is missing from the Tabula, even though an important crossing lay right here. Local legend named the town after the nymph Larissa, a daughter of Pelasgos. From 196 BC it was the capital of the Thessalian League, and in 48 BC, after his defeat at Pharsalus, Pompey fled here first. Under Diocletian it became the capital of the new province of Thessalia, and Justinian later rebuilt the walls the Goths had destroyed.