Crestonia (Crestonice) was an ancient region immediately north of Mygdonia. The Echidorus river, which flowed through Mygdonia into the Thermaic Gulf, had its source in Crestonia. It was chiefly occupied by a remnant of the Pelasgi, who spoke a different language from their neighbors (Thracians, Paionians; later Macedonians and Hellenes). Ancient Greek writers used the name Pelasgian to refer to groups of people who preceded the Hellenes and dwelt in several locations in Anatolia, the Aegean and mainland Greece, as neighbors of the Hellenes. ... The Thracians were an Indo-European people, inhabitants of Thrace and adjacent lands (present-day Bulgaria, northeastern Greece, European Turkey, eastern Serbia and Macedonia). ... Macedonian is a name generally used to define the inhabitants of the wider region of Macedonia throughout time. ... This article or section should include material from Greeks According to Thucydides, Hellenes were the people of Hellas. ...

The main towns of Crestonia were Creston (Crestone) and "Gallicum" (Romanized name). The region, along with Mygdonia, was held by Paionians for a time, later by Thracians. At the time of the invasion of Xerxes, Crestonia was ruled by an independent Thracian prince (Herodotus, 8. 116). By the time of the commencement of the Peloponnesian war, Crestonia had been annexed to the kingdom of Macedon. Paul Creston, composer. ... Xerxes (the Greek form of the Persian Khshayarsluf) is the name of two Persian kings of the Achaemenid dynasty: Xerxes I, reigned 485-465 BC Xerxes II, reigned 424 BC Xerxes was also an Armenian king, killed about 212 BC by Antiochus III the Great and of a son of... Herodotus was an ancient historian who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC - c. ... Map of the Greek world at the start of the Peloponnesian War Temple of Apollo at Corinth The Peloponnesian War was begun in 431 BC between the Athenian Empire and the Peloponnesian League which included Sparta and Corinth. ... Macedon (aka. ...

Today, ancient Crestonia is comprehended within the prefectures of Kilkis and part of north Thessaloniki in Greece. Kilkis (Κιλκίς in Greek) (also known as Kukuš or Kukush in Bulgarian) is a small provincial city in Central Macedonia, Greece. ... Thessaloniki (Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη) is a nomos (prefecture) in Greece, containing Thessaloniki, Lagana and the northern portion of the Chalcidicean peninsula. ... Greece, officaly called the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρατία), is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. ...