Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Berge or Berga (Greek: Βέργη or Βέργα) was a Greek settlement in what is now the Serres regional unit in northern Greece.The town was located in the region of Bisaltia, north-west of Amphipolis, and was founded by Thasians as a dependent colony and emporion sometime in the 5th century BC. The town was a member of the Delian League, and according to N. G. L. Hammond was colonized by 1000 Athenians. Later soures call it a polis, but according to Strabo it was a village of the Bisaltae and Ptolemy writes that it was in the territory of the Odomanti.Berge was a rich city and that minted her own currencies from 476 to 356 BC the currencies they depicted Silenus with a nymph or Silenus or a fish carp or square crisscross in form of swastikas and had the following words inscribed, (Greek: ΒΕΡΓ) or (Greek: ΒΕΡΓΑΙ) or (Greek: ΒΕΡΓΑΙΟΥ). Berge began to lose its importance after the foundation of Amphipolis, it continued however being a self-sufficient city in Hellenistic and Roman times.It was the homeland of Antiphanes of Berge (4th century BC), writer of the book Apista (Unbelievable Stories), from which the verb bergaizein (Greek: βεργαϊζειν) was created to denote someone telling incredible stories."@en }
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- Berge_(Bisaltia) abstract "Berge or Berga (Greek: Βέργη or Βέργα) was a Greek settlement in what is now the Serres regional unit in northern Greece.The town was located in the region of Bisaltia, north-west of Amphipolis, and was founded by Thasians as a dependent colony and emporion sometime in the 5th century BC. The town was a member of the Delian League, and according to N. G. L. Hammond was colonized by 1000 Athenians. Later soures call it a polis, but according to Strabo it was a village of the Bisaltae and Ptolemy writes that it was in the territory of the Odomanti.Berge was a rich city and that minted her own currencies from 476 to 356 BC the currencies they depicted Silenus with a nymph or Silenus or a fish carp or square crisscross in form of swastikas and had the following words inscribed, (Greek: ΒΕΡΓ) or (Greek: ΒΕΡΓΑΙ) or (Greek: ΒΕΡΓΑΙΟΥ). Berge began to lose its importance after the foundation of Amphipolis, it continued however being a self-sufficient city in Hellenistic and Roman times.It was the homeland of Antiphanes of Berge (4th century BC), writer of the book Apista (Unbelievable Stories), from which the verb bergaizein (Greek: βεργαϊζειν) was created to denote someone telling incredible stories.".