Aiolidai
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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 Aiolidai is based on peer group of similar polities in the same region (Phersu Atlas assumption).
Chronology
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Were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states.
1.1.Second Persian invasion of Greece
Was an unsuccesful military campaign waged by Achaemenid King Xerxes I that sought to conquer all of Greece.
October 480 BC: The Persian victory at Thermopylae (480 BC) meant that all Boeotia fell to Xerxes.
September 479 BC: The Battle of Plataea was the final land battle between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek Poleis during the second Persian invasion of Greece. The Persian infantry proved no match for the heavily armoured Greek hoplites, and the Spartans broke through to General Mardonius's bodyguard and killed him. The Persian force thus dissolved and 40,000 troops managed to escape to Thessaly. The Persians also left territories occupied in Aiolidai.
January 478 BC: Aiolidai was destroyed by the Persians.
Disestablishment
January 478 BC: Aiolidai was destroyed by the Persians.
Selected Sources
Fine, J.V.A. (1983): The Ancient Greeks: A Critical History, Harvard University Press, pp. 311-312
Herodotus, The Histories, IX.66
