When he had arrived at +Thessaloniki [22.933,40.633] (inhabited place), Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece, Europe Therma, Xerxes quartered his army there. Its encampment by the sea covered all the space from +Thessaloniki [22.933,40.633] (inhabited place), Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece, Europe Therma and the Mygdonian country to the rivers Lydias and Haliacmon, which unite their waters in one stream and so make the border between the Bottiaean and the Macedonian Not the whole of Macedonia (region (general)), EuropeMacedonia, but the region originally ruled by the Temenid dynasty, between the rivers Haliacmon and +Vardar [22.833,40.583] (river), Europe Axius and the foothills of Bermius. +Edessa [22.0583,40.8] (Perseus) Edessa was the chief town. territory.

In this place the foreigners lay encamped; of the rivers just mentioned, the Cheidorus, which flows from the Crestonaean country, was the only one which could not suffice for the army's drinking but was completely drained by it.