Timespan 3 Colonisation by James Renshaw

Bisaltia, Greece

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1000 Athens sent to Thrace to make their homes with the Bisaltae (Plutarch)

Naxos, Greece

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500 settlers from Athens (Plutarch)

Çanakkale, Türkiye

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1000 settlers from Athens (Plutarch)

Andros, Greece

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250 settlers from Athens (Plutarch)

Thurii, Province of Cosenza, Italy

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Panhellenic settlement where the largest number were Athenians, but there were more Athenians overall. Founded in 444/3, with Pericles and Protagoras credited as masterminds, Herodotus is said to have been a founder colonist.

Sinop, Sinop Merkez/Sinop, Türkiye

jrenshaw1 — 2024-01-29 12:47:37 UTC

Pericles is said to have settled 600 Athenians here in the 430s, having helped overthrow the local tyrant Timesilaus. (Plutarch Pericles 20)

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jrenshaw1 — 2024-01-29 12:49:03 UTC

Pericles is said to have led a large and splendidly equipped fleet here in 436 - the first Athenian general to bring a large fleet into the Black Sea.

Amphipolis, Greece

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According to Thucydides 4.102, Athens founded a colony at Amphipolis in 436.

Foundation of Brea (location uncertain)

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Foundation of Brea (440-432). The Brea Inscription says that the settlers were from the lowest two wealth classes of Athens, so tying in with Plutarch, Pericles 11.

430s: Athens involved in an Ambracian Gulf dispute

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Athens gives military help to the Acarnanians and Amphilochian Argives in their dispute with Ambracia, a Corinthian colony (but not a member of the Peloponnesian League).

433/2 Leontini

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Athens renews an alliance made in the 440s

433/2 Rhegium

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Athens renews an alliance it had made in the 440s

Corcyra

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Athens makes a defensive alliance with the island in 433, according to Thucydides.