Polity Chalkis (Aiolis)

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A Greek polis in the ancient region of Aiolis.

Establishment

  • January 699 BC: Chalkis (Aiolis) was founded by Greek colonists around 700 BC during a wave of Greek colonization in the eastern part of the Aegean Sea, Anatolia, and along the shores of the Black Sea.
  • January 699 BC: Establishment of the city-state of Mytilene in the 8th century BC.

Chronology

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1. Conquests of Croesus

Conquests by the Lydian king Croesus.

  • January 559 BC: Conquered by the Kingdom of Lydia. By the start of the reign of Lydian King Croesus (560 BCE), he and his father Alyattes I had conquered (or de facto controlled) most of the Greek Poleis of Asia minor.

Disestablishment

  • January 559 BC: Conquered by the Kingdom of Lydia. By the start of the reign of Lydian King Croesus (560 BCE), he and his father Alyattes I had conquered (or de facto controlled) most of the Greek Poleis of Asia minor.

Selected Sources

  • Leloux, K. (2018): La Lydie d'Alyatte et Crésus: Un royaume à la croisée des cités grecques et des monarchies orientales. Recherches sur son organisation interne et sa politique extérieure, Liège (Belgium), pp. 2 and 22