Question regarding Edessa.

[Hellas7]

I have seen this now for the second time, first time it didn't seem right and I shrugged it off:

The town of Edessa in "slavic" macedonian language is called VODEN. Voden means wet/water/abundance of water it associated a link with water. The ancient name of the town was VEDY. VEDY is an ancient macedonian name given to the town. VEDY in ancient macedonian means---> an abundance of water!! The greek version of the name for this town is EDESSA, it means-->an abundance of water. Its ironic but here we have three names with the same meaning. VEDY (ancient macedonian) VODEN (modern macedonian) Edessa (greek). In this such case modern macedonian is alot closely related to the ancient name of the town than greek is.

I know there are more here more knowledageable than me, and I am wondering if there is any credibility to this.

[Tsontos]

Im not an amatuer linguist like the maknews clowns but heres what wikipedia says

Archaelogical remains have been discovered on the site of ancient Edessa, just below the modern city. The walls and the agora have been unearthed so far. A colonade with inscription in Greek dates from Roman times. The city achieved certain prominence in the first centuries AD, being located in the Via Egnatia. From 27 BC to 249 AD it had its own mint. St. Vassa and her three children were put to death in the 3rd Century AD.

Very little is known about the fate of the city after 500 AD. Its bishop Issidoros participated in the Ecumenical Council of 692. After the slavic settlements of the 6th-8th century, the name of "Edessa" disappears and what remains of the city (a fortress in the acropolis of the ancient city) is renamed "Vodena". It is known as such to the 11th century Byzantine historian John Skylitzes. It is mentioned as both Edessa and Vodena by emperor-historian John VI Kantakouzenos who laid siege to the city in the 1340s. Conquered by the Sebs of Stephen Dusan at that time, it fell to the Ottomans along with the rest of Macedonia around 1390.

Edessa, Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Does the skop who wrote that give any evidence of the ancient name being "Vedy"? What record is this from, what script is it written in and most importantly did he smoke some ice to balance out the weed he is smoking?

[Spartan]

All I have ever heard was the it's ancient name was Edessa and that it was originally a Thracian(Bryges) town until the Macedonians settled it and ran them out of the area. I was later after the Slavic invasions that its name was changed to Voden.

Wherever you are hearing that B.S is exactly that B.S!!

It seems to me just an attempt by the MAKs to show some kind of connection to the Ancient Macedonians. We all know that there are only a handfull of non-Greek words that exist from ancient Macedonia and those are both Illyrian and Thracian. All the rest of the words are all Greek.
You should ask these people where they found such ridiculous info!

So I would have to say it's original Ancient Macedonian name was ALWAYS Edessa!