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Name: Kytaia

Type: Polity

Start: 480 BC

End: 438 BC

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A Greek polis in the ancient region of Skythia Pontica.

Establishment


  • January 480 BC: Greek colony established in the V century BC by East Greeks.
  • 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.


    2. Conquests of Spartokos I


    Conquests by Spartokos I, ruler of Bosporan Kingdom.

  • January 437 BC: Kytaia is annexed to the Bosporan Kingdom.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 437 BC: Kytaia is annexed to the Bosporan Kingdom.
  • Selected Sources


  • Hansen, M. G. / Nielsen, T. H. (2004): An inventory of archaic and classic polities, Oxford University Press, p. 1394
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