Achaia Fthiotida or Phthiotic Achaea

Phthiotic Achaea was an ancient region of central Greece comprising the mountainous region (Mount Óthrys) of Fthiotida with the towns of Thebe Phtiotica, Larissa, Cremaste, Halos and Meliteia.
This southeastern region of Thessaly south of the Gulf of Pagasae, was the mythical kingdom of Peleus and Achilles and legendary place of origin from the Achaeans.

Achilles was a demigod, son of the mortal Peleus, king of the Myrmidons of Phtia (in the south-east of Thessaly) and of the nereid Thetis. - Peleus (left) entrusts his son Achilles (centre) to Centaur Chiron (right). White-ground black-figured lekythos by the Edinburgh Painter, ca. 500 BC. From Eretria. National Archaeological Museum in Athens, 1150.
Achilles was a demigod, son of the mortal Peleus, king of the Myrmidons of Phtia (in the south-east of Thessaly) and of the nereid Thetis. - Peleus (left) entrusts his son Achilles (centre) to Centaur Chiron (right). White-ground black-figured lekythos by the Edinburgh Painter, ca. 500 BC. From Eretria. National Archaeological Museum in Athens, 1150.

Unlike the Fthiotida tetrad, a district of the Thessalian League, Achaea Fthiotida was, with respect to this league (whose fate it then followed in the Macedonian and Roman periods), a periecian territory, i.e. vassal; to the Thessalian League it sent, at least since the end of the 6th century BCE, a military contingent and paid a tribute. Members of the Delphic-Pilaic Amphictyony, the Phthiotian Achaeans were represented in the Amphictyonic Sanhedrin by two hieromnemons.

Phthiotic Achaea
Phthiotic Achaea

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