Athos Isthmus

If you are looking for the page with the statistics about this event you can find it here:All Statistics

was a navigable canal through the base of the Mount Athos peninsula in Chalkidiki, northern Greece, built by king Xerxes I of Persia in the 5th century BC.

Chronology

Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation

January 149 BC: Timarchus advanced along the Narenta river, crossed the Dinaric Alps and reached the plain of the Lib, where he besieged the capital of the Delmatae, Delminium. And although part of the fortress had been burned and almost reduced to surrender, Figulus was forced to return to Rome at the end of his mandate (winter 156 BC). The following year the siege was completed by his successor, the consul Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculo, who obtained the triumph for this success.

January 482 BC: Xerxes, in preparation for the Second Persian invasion of Greece, in 483 BC ordered a channel built through the Athos isthmus in order to avoid falling prey to the same catastrophe.