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* Amastris, who was believed to be the eponym of the city previously known as Kromna, although the city was also thought to have been named after the historical Amastris
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Amastris and who
The place derived its name Amastris from Amastris, the niece of the last Persian king Darius III, who was the wife of Dionysius, tyrant of Heraclea, and after his death the wife of Lysimachus.
During the brief marriage of Lysimachus and Amastris, she may have borne him a child, perhaps a daughter who may have been the first wife of Ptolemy Keraunos.
Dionysius therefore married Amastris, the former wife of Craterus, who secured to him considerable advantages.
He was succeeded by his wife Amastris, who reigned during the minority of her sons Clearchus II and Oxyathres.
Amastris and was
* Amastris, queen of Heraclea, was drowned by her two sons in 284 BC.
* Amastris, queen of Heraclea, was drowned by her two sons in 284 BC.
He obtained possession of the city of Amastris in Paphlagonia, which was surrendered to him.
Stephanus says that it was originally called Cromna ; but in another place, where he repeats the statement, he adds, as it is said ; but some say that Cromna is a small place in the territory of Amastris, which is the true account.
According to Strabo, Tium soon detached itself from the community, but the rest kept together, and Sesamus was the acropolis of Amastris.
From this it appears that Amastris was really a confederation or union of three places, and that Sesamus was the name of the city on the peninsula.
The younger Pliny, when he was governor of Bithynia and Pontus, describes Amastris, in a letter to Trajan, as a handsome city, with a very long open place ( platea ), on one side of which extended what was called a river, but in fact was a filthy, pestilent, open drain.
But it was in 1261 that Amastris regained part of its former importance ; in that year the town was taken by the Italian Republic of Genoa in its bid to obtain sole control of the Black Sea trade.
Amastris was the first woman to issue coins in her own name.
Amastris ( Greek: Aμαστρις ; killed c. 284 BC ) also called Amastrine, was a Persian Princess.
Amastris was given by Alexander the Great in marriage to Craterus, however Craterus later decided to marry Phila, one of the daughters of Antipater.
He was the father of Amastris queen of Heraclea.
Oxyathres ( in Greek Oξυαθρης ; died 284 BC ) was a son of Dionysius, tyrant of Heraclea and of Amastris, the daughter of the brother of Darius III Codomannus, also called Oxyathres.
He succeeded, together with his brother Clearchus, to the sovereignty of Heraclea on the death of Dionysius, 306 BC: but the government was administered by Amastris during the minority of her two sons.
Amastris and be
The Byzantines still controlled the coastal strip from Sile on the Black Sea to Uskudar and the city of Amasra ( Amastris ) in Paphlagonia, but these were so scattered and isolated as to be no threat to the Ottomans.
Amastris and city
Amastris, a few miles east of the Parthenius river, became important under the rule of the Macedonian monarchs ; while Amisus, a colony of Sinope situated a short distance east of the Halys river ( and therefore not strictly in Paphlagonia as defined by Strabo ), grew to become almost a rival of its parent city.
Its tyrant Eumenes presented the city of Amastris to Ariobarzanes of Pontus in c. 265 – 260 BC rather than submit it to domination by Heraclea, and it remained in the Pontic kingdom until its capture by Lucius Lucullus in 70 BC in the second Mithridatic War.
She also founded shortly after 300 BC a city called after her own name Amastris, on the sea-coast of Paphlagonia, by the fusion ( synoecism ) of the four smaller towns of Sesamus, Cromna, Cytorus and Tium, by conquering them.
One of these towns, Tium, later regained its autonomy, but the other three remained part of the city of Amastris ' territory.
Amastris and also
Four small Ionian colonies, Sesamus, Cytorus, Cromna, also mentioned in the Iliad, and Tium, were combined by Amastris, after her separation from Lysimachus, to form the new community of Amastris, placed on a small river of the same name and occupying a peninsula.
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