Aeolians from Lesbos and Ionian Greeks from …
Years: 645BCE - 634BCE
Aeolians from Lesbos and Ionian Greeks from Miletus establish about twelve cities in the Thracian Cheronese, a region comprising the modern Gallipoli Peninsula, located on the European side of the Hellespont (the Dardanelles, in modern Turkey) in the seventh century BCE.
A major wheat-exporting region, it is on the main trade route between Europe and Asia; one of its cities, Sestos, is at the main crossing point of the Hellespont.
Locations
Groups
- Ionians
- Aeolians
- Thracians
- Lesbos, Greek City-State of
- Miletus (Ionian Greek) city-state of
- Greece, classical
Topics
- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age, Near and Middle East
- Greek colonization
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
