History of old Naoussa This particular area of Vermio, where
Naoussa is found today and where Herodotus places the famous
"Gardens of Midas", was inhabited from most ancient times by the
Vriges, who migrated to Europe before the Trojan War. According
to Thucydides and Strabo, these Vriges were persecuted by
Caranus, founder of the Macedonian State, while subsequently
other Macedonian tribes came and intermixed with the Vrigo -
Pelasgian tribes which were left and thus comprised the
population of historical times. Extended ruins in the area
between today's Naoussa and the neighbouring villages of the
plain reinforce the version that contemporary Naoussa has
evolved at the site of a significant city of antiquity, which
was found between Veroia and Edessa. The name of this city,
according to archaeologists' most recent views, was Mieza.
According to local myth, the three children of the mythical king
of the area, Veretos, passed their names on as follows: the
daughters to the two important cities of Emathia, Ver