Thracian Chersonese

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The Thracian Chersonese was an important ancient peninsula in the northern Aegean (modern Gallipoli in Turkey), strategically controlling access between the Aegean and Black Seas and frequently contested by Greek city-states and later empires.

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Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient peninsula
historical region
borders Aegean Sea
Hellespont
linked to: Dardanelles
colonizedBy Athens
Greek city-states
Miletus
Paros
conqueredBy Persian general Otanes
contestedBy Athens
Byzantine Empire
Hellenistic kingdoms
Macedon
Ottoman Empire
Persian Empire
linked to: Achaemenid Empire

Roman Republic
Sparta
controlsAccessTo Aegean Sea
Black Sea
hasMajorCity Aegospotami vicinity
Cardia
Lampsacus
Sestos
importantFor Athenian grain supply
control of Hellespont
incorporatedInto Achaemenid Empire
Macedonian Empire
linked to: Macedon

Roman Empire
inhabitedBy Greeks
Thracians
knownFor Greek colonization
fertile land
military significance
laterKnownAs Gallipoli Peninsula
locatedIn Europe
Thrace
northern Aegean
locatedInPresentDay Gallipoli Peninsula
Turkey
mentionedIn Herodotus
Thucydides
nameMeaning Thracian Peninsula
linked to: Thrace
partOf Athenian sphere of influence
ruledBy Miltiades the Elder
Miltiades the Younger
linked to: Miltiades the Elder
separatedBy Hellespont
linked to: Dardanelles
strategicImportance control of grain routes from Black Sea to Greece
control of sea route between Aegean and Black Seas
usedFor agriculture
military bases

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Referenced by (20)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hecuba (Euripides) setting Thracian Chersonese
Abydos partOf Hellespont region
linked to: Thracian Chersonese
Sestos partOf Chersonese of Thrace
linked to: Thracian Chersonese
Sestos partOf Hellespontine region
linked to: Thracian Chersonese
Basil I birthPlace Adrianople region
subject linked to: Byzantine Emperor Basil I
linked to: Thracian Chersonese
Pharnabazus II governedRegion Hellespont region
linked to: Thracian Chersonese
Arsites regionRuled Hellespont region
linked to: Thracian Chersonese
Philaid family associatedWith Chersonese (Thracian Chersonese)
linked to: Thracian Chersonese
Miltiades the Elder as ruler in the Chersonese territoryRuled Chersonese
linked to: Thracian Chersonese
Miltiades the Elder placeOfDeath Thracian Chersonese
Miltiades the Elder residence Thracian Chersonese
Miltiades the Elder regionRuled Thracian Chersonese
Augustan wars hasLocation Hellespont region
linked to: Thracian Chersonese
Battle of Aigos Potamos locatedIn Thracian Chersonese
Karasi Beylik region Hellespont region
linked to: Thracian Chersonese
Founding of Lysimachia hasLocation Thracian Chersonese
Founding of Lysimachia hasLocation Hellespont region
linked to: Thracian Chersonese
Lysimachia locatedOn Thracian Chersonese