Abai

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A Greek polis in the ancient region of Phokis.

Establishment

January 799 BC: The year of foundation of the polity of Abai is based on peer group of similar polities in the same region (Phersu Atlas assumption).

Chronology

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1. Greco-Persian Wars

Were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states.

1.1.First Persian invasion of Greece

Were a series of campaigns of Achaemenid ruler Darius the Great against the poleis of Greece resulting in Persian occupation of Thrace but also in the Persian defeat in Greece proper.

January 480 BC: Abai was occupied for a short period by the Persians in the invasion of Xerxes in their march through Phocis (480 BC).

1.2.Second Persian invasion of Greece

Was an unsuccesful military campaign waged by Achaemenid King Xerxes I that sought to conquer all of Greece.

January 479 BC: The Persians left Abai.

2. First Peloponnesian War

Was a war fought between Sparta as leader of the Peloponnesian League and Sparta's other allies, most notably Thebes, against the Delian League led by Athens with support from Argos.

January 456 BC: The Athenians sent an army under Myronides to attack Boeotia. The Boeotian army gave battle to the Athenians at Oenophyta. The Athenians scored a crushing victory which led to the Athenians conquering all of Boeotia except for Thebes, as well as Phocis and Locris.

January 446 BC: In 447 BC a revolt against the Athenians broke out in Boeotia causing the end of the continental part of the Athenian Empire on the Greek mainland. The Athenians were defeated at the Battle of Coronea. Athens abandoned Boeotia, Phocis, and Locris.

3. Wars of the Rise of Macedon

Expansion of Macedonia under King Philip II.

3.1.Third Sacred War

Was fought between the forces of the Delphic Amphictyonic League, principally represented by Thebes, and latterly by Philip II of Macedon, and the Phocians.

January 346 BC: Abai was occupied a second time by the Boeotians in the Sacred or Phocian War in 346 BC.

January 345 BC: The Polis of Abai was destroyed in 480 BC during the Greco-Persian Wars. It was later reestablished around 346 BC.