{{Short description|Plain in Thessaly, Greece}}{{1r|date=November 2025}}[[File:Histiaeotis.jpg|thumb|right|Photo of the Thessalian plain from the 1st of April, 2015]] The '''Thessalian plain''' ({{langx|el|Θεσσαλική πεδιάδα, Θεσσαλικός κάμπος}}) is the dominant geographical feature of the [[Greece|Greek]] region of [[Thessaly]].
The plain is formed by the [[Pineios (Thessaly)|Pineios River]] and its tributaries and is surrounded by mountains:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thessaly |url=https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/historians/notes/thessaly.html |access-date=2025-11-11 |website=www.thelatinlibrary.com}}</ref> the [[Pindus]] mountain range to the west, which separates Thessaly from [[Epirus]]; [[Mount Othrys]] and its outliers in the south; [[Mount Pelion]] to the east; [[Mount Ossa (Greece)|Mount Ossa]] and [[Mount Olympus]] to the northeast, with the pass of the [[Tempe Valley]] leading to [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]]; and the [[Chasia]] and [[Kamvounia]] mountains to the north.
The plain was extremely fertile, and up until the early 20th century the area was a breadbasket for Greece. The existence of the plain also made Thessaly one of the few areas in [[ancient Greece]] that could field large numbers of cavalry; the [[Thessalian cavalry]] was an important component in the [[Ancient Macedonian army]] of [[Philip II of Macedon|Philip II]] and [[Alexander the Great]].
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[[Category:Geography of Thessaly]] [[Category:Plains of Greece]]