• Agora (Ancient Greek: Ἀγορά), also called Cherronesos or Chersonesos (Ancient Greek: Χερρόνησος, Χερσόνησος; IPA(key): /kʰer.ró.nɛː.sos/, /kʰer.só.nɛː...
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  • rights advocacy group Agora Center, Jyväskylä, Finland Agora Energiewende, a German renewable energy think tank Agora (Thrace), an ancient Greek town...
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    nobility, especially in Athens. Julius Caesar began construction of the Roman agora in Athens, which was finished by Augustus. The main gate, the Gate of Athena...
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    In 424 BC, while Brasidas mustered a force at Corinth for a campaign in Thrace, he frustrated an Athenian attack on Megara. Immediately afterwards he marched...
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    Smyrna (section Agora)
    ancient agora of Smyrna constitute today the space of İzmir Agora Museum in İzmir's Namazgah quarter, although its area is commonly referred to as "Agora" by...
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  • a list of ancient cities, towns, villages, and fortresses in and around Thrace and Dacia. A number of these settlements were Thracian and Dacian, but some...
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  • regular, with two large arteries that lead from the gates to the center. The agora is in the NW sector. In the NE zone is a walled and towered trapezoidal...
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    rule of Darius the Great, Thrace was included in the Persian empire. In 492 BC the Persian general Mardonius ruled Thrace again, and it became nominally...
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    gained permission to take an army north to attack Athenian holdings in Thrace. Brasidas gathered an army of 700 helots armed as hoplites and 1,000 mercenary...
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  • ancient Greek colony in Sicily, Italy Chersonesos (Thrace), an ancient Greek colony, also called Agora, in what is today the Gallipoli peninsula Chersonesus...
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    ruins of the ancient city and is part of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace in Kavala, Greece. The archaeological site was classified as a UNESCO World...
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    Amphipolis (category Populated places in ancient Thrace)
    Throughout the 5th century BC, Athens sought to consolidate its control over Thrace, which was strategically important because of its raw materials (the gold...
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    Ares (category Greek mythology of Thrace)
    to Ares at Olympia, and the moving of a Temple of Ares to the Athenian agora during the reign of Augustus, essentially rededicating it (2 AD) as a Roman...
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    part of the territories of Antigonus Monophthalmus, possibly Lysimachus of Thrace, the Seleucids of Syria and the Attalids of Pergamon. The archeological...
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  • travelled to the Oracle of Delphi for advice, and were told to return to Thrace with a Greek colonist as their commander. The Dolonci asked Miltiades to...
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    Gallipoli (category Geography of Thrace)
    romanized: Chersónisos tis Kallípolis) is located in the southern part of East Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles...
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    Enez (redirect from Aenus (Thrace))
    Enez is a town in Edirne Province, in East Thrace, Turkey. The ancient name of the town was Ainos (Greek: Αίνος), Latinised as Aenus. It is the seat of...
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  • (Ancient Greek: Ἄπρος), also Apri or Aproi (Ἄπροι), was a town of ancient Thrace and, later, a Roman city established in the Roman province of Europa. Stephanus...
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    Lysimachus, King of Thrace, took possession in 301 BC, and the town was enlarged by his lieutenant Philetaerus. In 281 BC the kingdom of Thrace collapsed and...
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    Komotini (category Municipalities of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace)
    Κομοτηνή, Turkish: Gümülcine) is a city in the region of East Macedonia and Thrace, northeastern Greece and its capital. It is also the capital of the Rhodope...
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  • isthmus, commanded the road from Sestos to the north and the mainland of Thrace. In order to obtain inhabitants for his new city, Lysimachus destroyed the...
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  • in the agora. He is frequently mentioned in later plays: Theorus: A supporter of Cleon, he appears here as the unreliable ambassador to Thrace. He is...
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    sources on Thracian religion are from the 4th century BCE. The region of Thrace for which there is the most comprehensive evidence for its religious practices...
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    smaller Agora surrounded by public buildings. Parts of a second place were found, so that the assumption is that instead of a central agora several smaller...
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  • Κυψέλα or Κύψελα), was an ancient Greek town on the river Hebrus in ancient Thrace, which was once an important place on the Via Egnatia. Antiochus besieged...
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    480 BC, when the Persian army crossed the Hellespont and marched through Thrace and Macedon to Thessaly. The Persian advance was blocked at the pass of...
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  • concernment is about the affairs of the Chersonesus, and Philip's expedition into Thrace...but most of our orators insist upon the actions and designs of Diopithes...
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  • Phosphorus was a town of ancient Thrace, inhabited during Roman times. Its site is located near Karataş Çiftliği in European Turkey. Richard Talbert, ed...
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    the work of slaves. Many of the potters of Athens assembled between the agora and the Dipylon, in the Kerameikon. They most often operated as small workshops...
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  • Kressa (Ancient Greek: Κρῆσσα) was an ancient Greek city located in ancient Thrace, on the Thracian Chersonesus. It is cited in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax...
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