Hipponion
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A Greek polis in Magna Graecia.
Establishment
January 600 BC: In the second half of the 7th century B.C. the Greeks of Locri Epizephyrii founded a sub-colony with the name of Hipponion.
Chronology
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Conquests by Dyonisus I "the Elder", tyrant of the Polis of Syracuse (Sicily).
January 388 BC: In 388 BC after the defeat of the Italiots at Kaulon in the battle of the Elleporo (389 BC), Dionysius conquered Hipponion and deported part of the inhabitants to Syracuse, handing over the territory to the Locrians.
January 378 BC: In 379 BC, the Carthaginians liberated the city of Hipponion.
Disestablishment
January 299 BC: Between the middle of the 4th and the middle of the 3rd century BC, the Bruttians attacked and conquered various Magna Graecia cities, including, on the Tyrrhenian side, Themesa and Terina, Hipponion (present-day Vibo Valentia), and on the Ionian side even the mythical Sybaris.
