Poteidaia/Kassandreia

settlement · 750 BC – 2099 AD

Poteidaia/Kassandreia was a Greek colony founded ca. 600 BC by Corinthians on the peninsula of Pallene in western Chalcidice. The site received a Roman colony in 43 B.C. and in 30 B.C. Augustus settled veterans there, renaming it as Colonia Iulia Augusta Cassandrensis.

Coordinates

40.19370, 23.32781

Also known as

Colonia Iulia Augusta Cassandrensis (la), Colonia Iulia Augusta Cassandrensis (la), Kassandreia (grc), Nea Poteidaia (el), Nea Potidaia (el), Poteidaia (grc), Κασσανδρεία (grc), Νέα Ποτείδαια (el), Ποτείδαια (grc)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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