Heraion Teichos
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A Greek polis in the ancient region of Propontic Thrace.
Establishment
January 599 BC: Heraion Teichos was a Samian colony and founded around 600 BC.
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.
June 480 BC: Having crossed into Europe in April 480 BC, the Persian army began its march to Greece.
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 Heraion Teichos.
Expansion of Macedonia under King Philip II.
January 351 BC: In 352 BC Phillip II besieged the city of Heraion Teichos. Athens decided to send a fleet of forty triremes and to levy sixty talents in order to help the city, but the fleet never set sail. Only later a much smaller fleet of ten ships and money of five talents were sent. But Philip captured the city.
Disestablishment
January 351 BC: In 352 BC Phillip II besieged the city of Heraion Teichos. Athens decided to send a fleet of forty triremes and to levy sixty talents in order to help the city, but the fleet never set sail. Only later a much smaller fleet of ten ships and money of five talents were sent. But Philip captured the city.
Selected Sources
Herodotus, The Histories, IX.66
Herodotus, The Histories, VII.25
