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The Boeotian cities of Chalkis and Eretria …
Years: 705BCE - 694BCE
The Boeotian cities of Chalkis and Eretria battle on the Lelantine Plain, the natural boundary between them, in the culmination of a mercantile conflict known as the Lelantine War.
Corinth, Samos, and the Thessalian League back Chalkis; Aegina and Miletos (and possibly Megara) back Eretria.
In the final battle, from which the war derives its name, Thessalian cavalry defeat the Eretrian forces.
Indirect evidence in Thucydides points towards a date circa 705 BCE, situating the conflict halfway between history and legend.
As a consequence, Eretria loses control of Andros, Tenos, and Kea islands.
Lefkandi may have been the predecessor of Eretria and abandoned as the result of the victory of Chalkis in the war.
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- Greece, classical
- Megara, City-State of
- Aegina, city-state of
- Eretria, City-State of
- Chalcis, City-State of
- Corinth, City-State of
- Thessalian League
Topics
- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age Europe
- Greek colonization
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Lelantine War
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Years: 705BCE - 694BCE
Locations
Groups
- Greece, classical
- Megara, City-State of
- Aegina, city-state of
- Eretria, City-State of
- Chalcis, City-State of
- Corinth, City-State of
- Thessalian League
Topics
- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age Europe
- Greek colonization
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Lelantine War
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions