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Name: Massalia

Type: Polity

Start: 599 BC

End: 49 BC

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Was an Ancient Greek Polis (city-state) in southern France and a predecessor of the city of Marseille.

Establishment


  • January 599 BC: The Ionian Greeks of Phocaea, escaping from Asia Minor because of the Lydian danger, arrive in the Thyrrenian Sea and found Marseille in southern France.
  • Chronology


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    1. Caesar´s Civil War


    Was a Civil War in the Roman Republic between the two powerful generals Gaius Julius Caesar and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus. The war was won by Caesar who became dictator of Rome.

  • September 49 BC: Caesar's siege of Massilia against the Pompeian Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.

  • Disestablishment


  • September 49 BC: Caesar's siege of Massilia against the Pompeian Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.
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