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Chalcidice was settled early on by southern Greek colonists and was considered part of the Greek world, while from the late 2nd millennium BC substantial Greek settlement also occurred on the eastern shores of the Aegean, in Anatolia.
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Chalcidice and was
Aristotle, whose name means " the best purpose ," was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, in 384 BC, about east of modern-day Thessaloniki.
A founder-cult of Protesilaus at Scione, in Pallene, Chalcidice, was given an etiology by the Augustan mythographer Conon that is at variance with the epic tradition.
* Chalcidice: A region in the northern Aegean that was under Athenian control but where the cities were increasingly rebellious.
* Potidaea: A rebellious city in Chalcidice, it was recaptured by the Athenians in 429 BC.
Olynthus (, named for the olunthos, the fruit of the wild fig tree ) was an ancient city of Chalcidice, built mostly on two flat-topped hills 30 – 40m in height, in a fertile plain at the head of the Gulf of Torone, near the neck of the peninsula of Pallene, about 2. 5 kilometers from the sea, and about 60 stadia ( c. 9 – 10 kilometers ) from Poteidaea.
In that year the Persian general Artabazus, on his return from escorting Xerxes to the Hellespont, suspecting that a revolt from the Great King was meditated, handed the town over to Kritovoulos from Toroni and to a fresh population consisting of Greeks from the neighboring region of Chalcidice ( Herod.
An army from Chalcidice, Spartolos, and Olynthus met the Athenians in battle, but their hoplites were defeated and they retreated to Spartolus ; their cavalry, however, was victorious against the Athenian troops.
Potidaea was a colony of Corinth on the Chalcidice peninsula, but was a member of the Delian League and paid tribute to Athens.
After Potidaea was firmly besieged, Phormio led his men in a successful campaign against Athens ' enemies in the Chalcidice, and in the next year he again led an army attacking the Chalcidians, this time alongside Perdiccas, king of Macedon.
* Scione: A city on the promontory of Chalcidice, it revolted against Athenian rule two days after the Athenian truce with Sparta and it was now under siege ; this was the only fighting Athenians were engaged in at this time.
It was named after the philosopher Aristotle, who was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, about 55 km east of Thessaloniki, in Central Macedonia.
The Koinon was destroyed in 379 BCE by the Spartans, while in 348 BCE Philipp II of Macedon annexed the whole Chalcidice into the Macedonian Kingdom.
In 168 BCE Chalcidice was subjected by the Romans.
Potidaea () () was a colony founded by the Corinthians around 600 BC in the narrowest point of the peninsula of Pallene, the westernmost of three peninsulas at the southern end of Chalcidice in northern Greece.
The Athenians preserved the city until 404 BC, when it was passed into Chalcidice.
It was previously inhabited by the Bottiaeans, a people of uncertain origin, later expelled by the Macedonians into Bottike ( Chalcidice ).
Chalcidice and on
* After he frustrates the Athenian attack on Megara, Brasidas marches through Boeotia and Thessaly to Chalcidice at the head of 700 helots and 1000 Peloponnesian mercenaries to join the Macedonian king Perdiccas II.
* Having blamed the defeats by Philip II in Thessaly and Chalcidice on his colleagues, Chares is left as sole Athenian commander.
In the 8th and 7th centuries BC, colonists from Chalcis founded thirty townships on the peninsula of Chalcidice, and several important cities in Sicily.
Though originally dependent on Eretria, by the 7th century BC it had become sufficiently prosperous to send out several colonies, to Chalcidice ( Acanthus, Stageira, Argilus, Sane ).
* Neapolis, Chalcidice, an ancient city on the Pallene isthmus, Chalcidice
When Xerxes crossed Chalcidice on his way to Therma ( later renamed Thessalonica ) he is said to have marched through Paeonian territory.
Stagira () is a Greek village lying on a picturesque plateau on the Chalcidice peninsula, and standing at the foot of the Argirolofos hill.
The other focus is in eastern Macedonia, on either side of the Axius and in the Chalcidice.
Chalcidice and by
Despite the Athenians being willing to comply, both Pydna and Potidaea are conquered by the Macedonians ( along with other Athenian strongholds in Thessaly and Chalcidice ) despite being defended by Athenian forces led by general and mercenary commander, Chares, as well as generals Iphicrates and Timotheus.
The avenues by which southern Greek impulses penetrated Macedonia were via trade with north Aegean colonies such as Methone and those in the Chalcidice, neighbouring Thessaly, and from the Ionic colonies Asia Minor.
Chalcidice and Greek
Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek bronze arrowhead, 4th century BC, from Olynthus, Chalcidice
Category: Greek colonies in Chalcidice
Category: Greek colonies in Chalcidice
* Sane ( Chalcidice ), ancient Greek city
Category: Greek colonies in Chalcidice
Chalcidice and part
* Moudania, Greece, a municipality and a second name of the community in the western part of the prefecture of Chalcidice, named after the old settlement of what is now Mudanya
Chalcidice and from
They destroyed the crops outside and began negotiating with pro-Athenian factions in Chalcidice, but the anti-Athenian factions asked for help from Olynthus.
Chalcidice and BC
All the same, in 424 BC, the 700 helots who served Brasidas in Chalcidice were emancipated, and they were henceforth known as the " Brasidians ".
In the Athenian tribute list of 429 / 8 BC the only cities of Chalcidice are: Mende, Aphytis, Scione, Stageira and Acanthus ( Athos ).
Chalcidice and also
Chalkidiki, also Halkidiki, Chalcidice or Chalkidike (, ), is a peninsula in northern Greece, and one of the regional units of Greece.
* Pallene, Chalcidice, the westernmost headland of the Chalcidice, Greece, also called Kassandra
Chalcidice and Aegean
In its day, the original range of the spoken Attic dialect included Attica, Euboea, some of the central Cyclades islands, and northern Aegean coastal areas of Thrace ( i. e. Chalcidice ).
Chalcidice and .
He conquers the city of Olynthus in the Chalcidice and he annexes Chalcidice to Macedonia.
Sparta, whose policy is to keep Greeks disunited, sends an expedition northwards to disrupt the Chalcidian League, a confederation of cities of the Chalcidice peninsula, east of Macedonia.
This is disconcertingly close to an outpost of Corinthian influence at Potidaea in the Chalcidice.
From Olynthus, Chalcidice.
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