Pelasgians - another (last) word

From: Rex H. McTyeire
Message: 1976
Date: 2000-03-30

John Croft offers a place name list from Perseus:

Palaikastritsa is in Corfu
Palaiikastro is in Eastern Crete
Pelikate is on Ithaca
Phylakopi is in the Cyclades
Plaka is on the tip of Attica

Your kites are always interesting, John: we now have a
substantial list of apparently pel/pal derived place and facility
names, far from limited to the Greek mainland.

There is also a Palaikastro, Boeotia..and much more. (Just
looking at the pel/pal..and ignoring Larissa's in two places in Anatolia, 4
places in Greece, 2 in Crete, and 1 in Syria.)

Pelasgian people from Larissa in Anat and Greece = Larisseans
(used by Strabo as Pelasgian) The Anatolian ones became Lydians. The folks
sent to become Etruscans (by Lydians of Tyrra) were Rassenes, then Rasenna.
Is "Larisseans" to "Rassenes/Rasenna" a really big linguistic or logic leap?

In reference to peoples:
Palaumnili (used for {Palaic} language in Hattusas archive)
Pelasgian
Pelasgi
Pelargi
Pelasgic (Virgil to people of Argos II)
Pelasgiotae (Strabo: people in north Thessaly to lower Macedon)
Palusta
Pelasti
Pelasgoi - (Homer: the Pelasti; Iliad 16,233)
Peligni (in pre-Roman Tuscany..natives not Etruscan)
Pelignian (Livy for same in Tuscany)
Pelagians (ITALY)
Pelorians (in SICILY)
Peleset
Peleste (Mashriqian for invaders into the Levant)
Palestinian
Philistim/Philistine

Specific individual name:
Pelasgus (of Mysia)
Pelops (from Anatolia to Pelasgia)
Peleus (father of Achilles)
Pylos (son of Cleson)
Pelias (dispatched Jason and the Argo)
Poliorcetes (founded Demetrias)
Polypoetes (Ruler of portion of Thessaly)

Places:
Palaechthon
Palaiscepsis: (City in the Troad, pre-Trojan war)
Palaepolis (Samothracian city)
Paleopolis (Greek colony into Italy)
Poliochni (Lemnos city/ EBA 3000 BCE)
Pelasgia (1-Argolis @ EBA> 2- Achaea > 3- Peloponnese)
Pelasgiotis (Thessaly)
Pelasgis (alternate name for Larisa, Thessaly)
Placia (Pelasgian city on the Hellespont, Anatolia)
Pylos I (on promontory of Coryphasium)
Pylos II (in Elis)
Pylus (on the road to Lacedaemon from the east coast)
Pylus (Messenia)
Pylae (Coastal city near Thermopylae)
Phalara (20 stadia north of Pylae)
Pherae
Pelasgian plains (Strabo: 160 strada between Pherae and Pelion)
Pelion (mountain in Thessaly)
Phlastia (from John: near Scyron; Corinth)
Pylaïc (Thessalian {Maliac} Gulf from Dolopia to Pindus)
Pella (Jordan EBA) (and Greece)
Palestine
Philistia
Pala (Anatolia, south of Black Sea)
Peloponnese (renaming Pelasgia for "Pelops" as Peloponnesus )
Pelorias (corner of Sicily)
Palatine Hill (ROME)
Palmyra (Italy)
Palmyrena (Italy)

Arch sites in Greece/Crete/Italy/Sicily/Jordan/(cough) Spain:
PALAIA PHEVA, see under TITHOREA
PALAIOCHORA, see KARYSTOS
PALAIOKASTRO, see APTERA, BOUPHAGION, PYLOS
PALAIOKHORA ("Kalamyde") Selinos, Crete.
PALAIO-LARISA, see KRANNON
PALAIOPHARSALOS Thessaly, Greece.
PALAIOPOLIS, see ANDROS
PALAIPAPHOS, see PAPHOS
PALATIA (Phokis, Greece), see ANTIKYRA
PALATITSA, see VERGHINA
PALEA GORITSA, see LIMES, GREEK EPEIROS
PALENCIA, see PALENTIA, Palencia, Spain.
PALEOKOULA, see LIMES, GREEK EPEIROS
PALEO SEBASTE, see EIBEOS
PALERMO, see PANORMOS
PALESTRINA, see PRAENESTE
PALIKÉ (Mineo) Catania, Sicily.
PALIOCHORI, see LIMES, ATTICA
PALIOKHORI BOTSARI, see LIMES, GREEK EPEIROS
PALIOPREVESA, see NIKOPOLIS
PALIOROFORON ("Elatria") S Epeiros, Greece.
PALLANO, see PALLANUM
PALLANTION Arkadia, Greece.
PALLANUM (Pallano) Abruzzo, Italy.
PELINNA (Palaiogardiki) Thessaly, Greece.
PELLA Macedonia, Greece. (Images: 58)
PELLA (Khirbet Fahil) Jordan.
PELLENE Achaia, Greece.
PELTUINUM Abruzzi, Italy.

General use:
Palaic (language of the people of Pala)
Pelagos (coastal)
Pel (of the sea)
Paleo (old or first)

Birds:
peliai/pelioi (old Pelasgian men/women + pigeons)
pelican (sea bird)
Peleiades (3 old priestesses of Dodona + storks)
Pelargi (another name for Pelasgi in Strabo, also "storks")

Facilities/Structures/functions:
palace
Pelasgic wall (fortification, N.W. slope of Acropolis).
Pelargikon (Attic name for the above wall)
Palinthus (tomb of Danaus in center of Argive market)
Pylaic (Festal Assembly)(Strabo: festival w/ games Thessaly)
Palaimon (temple, Isthmus of Corinth)
Pelasgicon
Pelicáta (Ithaca, Palace of Odysseus)
Palaestra (gym for youth, weapons; Anatolia/Crete/Greece)

La Revedere;
Rex H. McTyeire
Bucharest, Romania
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