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Didymateiche Latitude and Longitude:
40°17′10″N 27°16′28″E / 40.286031°N 27.274404°E / 40.286031; 27.274404
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Didymateiche ( Ancient Greek: Δίδυμα τείχη), [1] or Didymon Teichos ( Ancient Greek: Δίδυμον Τεῖχος, 'twin walled'), was a town of ancient Mysia. [2] It belonged to the Delian League since it appears in tribute records of Athens between the years 454/3 and 418/7 BCE. [3] Polybius writes that it was among the places that were conquered by Attalus I, after the city of Carseae. [1]

Its site is located north of Biga / Çanakkale, Turkey, Asiatic Turkey. [2] [4]

References

  1. ^ a b Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 5.77.8.
  2. ^ a b Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 52, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN  978-0-691-03169-9.
  3. ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Troad". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 979. ISBN  0-19-814099-1.
  4. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

40°17′10″N 27°16′28″E / 40.286031°N 27.274404°E / 40.286031; 27.274404


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