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Name: Temesa

Type: Polity

Start: 500 BC

End: 300 BC

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A Greek polis in Magna Graecia.

Establishment


  • January 500 BC: Foundation of the polis of Temesa. Based on numismatic evidence.
  • Chronology


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    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.
  • Selected Sources


  • Hansen, M. G. / Nielsen, T. H. (2004): An inventory of archaic and classic polities, Oxford University Press, pp. 1382-1389
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