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Eion
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Eion

Ancient city · Greece

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
40.788, 23.855
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: древний город во Фракии

History

Eion, one of two ancient cities named Chrysopolis, was an ancient Greek Eretrian colony in Thracian Macedonia specifically in the region of Edonis. It sat at the mouth of the Strymon River which flows into the Aegean from the interior of Thrace. It is referred to in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War as a place of considerable strategic importance to the Athenians during the Peloponnesian War.

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