Eion (Thrace)

Eion (Ancient Greek: Ἠϊών) was a town in ancient Thrace. It was a colony of the Mendaeans, which was betrayed to the Athenians, and retaken by the Chalcidians and Bottiaeans in 425 BCE.^[1] Eustathius placed Eion in the Chersonesus,^[2] but, as William Smith suggests that was much too remote for the Chalcidians to have marched to recover a town, Eion must have been on some point of the long and winding coast which extends from the Strymon River to the Axius River.

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^ Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. 4.7.
^ Eustathius ap. Homer Il. ii, p. 287

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Eion". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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[1] Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. 4.7.

[2] Eustathius ap. Homer Il. ii, p. 287

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