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AMPHIPOLIS (mod. Yeni Keui)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 891 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMPHIPOLIS (mod. Yeni Keui) , an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Macedonia, on the See also:east See also:bank of the See also:river Strymon, where it emerges from See also:Lake Cercinitis, about 3 M. from the See also:sea. Originally a Thracian See also:town, known as 'Epi4a 'OboL (" Nine Roads "), it was colonized by Athenians with other Greeks under Hagnon in 437 B.C., previous attempts—in 497, 476 (Schol. Aesch. De fills. See also:leg. 31) and 465—having been unsuccessful. In 424 B.C. it surrendered to the Spartan See also:Brasidas without resistance, owing to the See also:gross See also:negligence of the historian See also:Thucydides, who was with the See also:fleet at See also:Thasos. In 422 B.C. See also:Cleon led an unsuccessful expedition to recover it, in which both he and Brasidas were slain. The importance of Amphipolis in ancient times was due to the fact that it commanded the See also:bridge over the Strymon, and consequently the route from See also:northern See also:Greece to the See also:Hellespont; it was important also as a See also:depot for the See also:gold and See also:silver mines of the See also:district, and for See also:timber, which was largely used in See also:shipbuilding. This importance is shown by the fact that, in the See also:peace of See also:Nicias (421 B.C.), its restoration to See also:Athens is made the subject of a See also:special See also:provision, and that about 417, this provision not having been observed, at least one expedition was made by Nicias with a view to its recovery. See also:Philip of Macedon made a special point of occupying it (357), and under the See also:early See also:empire it became the headquarters of the See also:Roman propraetor, though it was recognized as See also:independent.

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inscriptions, coins, &c., have been found here, and traces of the ancient fortifications and of a Roman See also:aqueduct are visible.

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