Definitions for "Thessaly"
Keywords:  aegean, greece, epirus, hellas, larissa
A region of the Greek mainland where centaur s were said to live in the mountainous regions. See also Arcadia.
a fertile plain on the Aegean Sea in east central Greece; Thessaly was a former region of ancient Greece
Thessaly (Greek: Θεσσαλία Thessalía; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is one of the 13 peripheries of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 prefectures. The capital of the periphery is Larissa. The prefecture lies in central Greece and borders Macedonia on the north, Epirus on the west, Sterea Hellas or Central Greece on the south and the Aegean Sea on the east.