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Lysimachia (Thrace)
40.5833° N, 26.8833° E
About
Lysimachia (Greek: Λυσιμάχεια) was an important Hellenistic Greek town on the north-western extremity of the Thracian Chersonese (the modern Gallipoli peninsula) in the neck where the peninsula joins the mainland in what is now the European part of Turkey, not far from the bay of Melas (the modern Gulf of Saros). It is located near the modern village of Bolayır, not at Hexamili as previously thought.
Historical Timeline
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Destruction by Thracians
197 BC
Battle near Lysimachia
277 BC
Major earthquake
287 BC
Foundation by Lysimachus
309 BC
Justinianic restoration
527–565
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