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Lysimachia (Thrace)

Hellenistic city on the Gallipoli isthmus, founded 309 BCE

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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.

Paleolithic
Mesolithic
Neolithic
Chalcolithic
Bronze Age
Iron Age
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Post-Classical Period
Early Modern Period
Industrial Period
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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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Country

Turkey

Coordinates

40.58° N, 26.88° E