Lysimachia (Thrace)

Lysimachia (Greek Λυσιμάχεια, and Lysimachia, formerly cardia ) was an important Hellenistic Greek city in Thrace on the northern end of the peninsula Chersoneses (today Gallipoli). Their remains are to locate at the present village of BOLAYIR in the Turkish province of Çanakkale.

Cardia was originally a colony of Miletus and an important Greek polis of the Thracian Chersonessos. In the first half of the 4th century BC, however, the town belonged to the sphere of influence of Athens, whose suzerainty they BC no longer recognized since Philokratesfrieden 346. The attempt of the Diopeithes to bring the Thracian Chersoneses back under control Attic, located cardia presented 342 BC therefore contrary to what the political relations of Athens to King Philip II of Macedon significantly deteriorated. Even at the time of this king, the city was ruled by the tyrant Hecataeus. From hostility to this Eumenes († 316 BC ) was once exiled to the Macedonian court, where he was a royal secretary and vain to Alexander the Great urged to end the tyranny of Hecataeus. Another prominent citizens of the cardia was the historian Hieronymus, who was a friend and maybe even a relative of Eumenes.

Cardia was 309 BC by the Diadochenherrscher of Thrace, Lysimachus, destroyed the zwangsumsiedelte the population in its foundation near Lysimachia, which was to be its capital. The city secured the strategically important Hellespont ( Dardanelles ), who was a sea route for the supply Greece and at the same time as the invasion gate to Asia is important. After the death of Lysimachus she was fought between the other Diadochi, but soon acquired a certain autonomy and joined the Aetolian collar on. 277 BC defeated the Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas near Lysimachia the invading Celts. In the same year the city was destroyed by a major earthquake. 197 BC The city suffered from the war of the Romans against Philip V. of Macedon. Antiochus III. let the city then rebuild and promoted the settlement by generous promises. Nevertheless, the city could not recover from the shock and fell into the Roman period, more and more. Under its ancient name being mentioned last by the historian Ammianus Marcellinus (4th century ). Emperor Justinian built the city again, and fastened it; this time she was given the name Hexamilion.

• Hellenistic city
• Archaeological sites in Turkey
• Çanakkale Province
• Miletus