Bottia

(Βοττία) or Bottiaea (Βοττιαία). A district in Macedonia, on the right bank of the river Axius, extending in the time of Thucydides to Pieria on the west. The Bottiaei were a Thracian people, who, being driven out of the country by the Macedonians, settled in that part of the Macedonian Chalcidicé north of Olynthus which was called Botticé.