Road station
Olympum
Tsourba Mandra
Olympum is the fortress that Philip the Fifth of Macedon renamed Olympias after Mount Olympus, on whose slopes it lay, to press his claim to it; its old name was Gonnocondylus. In 185 BC the Perrhaebians asked for it back, as the Roman historian Livy tells. It lay at Tsourba Mandra in Thessaly, where a Hellenistic tomb, pottery, grave inscriptions and a dedication to Egyptian gods have been found. The map's form of the name seems to confuse the fortress with the mountain itself.