THE COLONISATION OF EPIRUS , MACEDONIA AND THRACE

THE HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE

Time line

* = Colonies with archaeological evidence at later date

see also

http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/aha/kaw/colonisation/colonists.htm

1200 -         Sanctuary at Poseidi belonging to Mende

                   (continues to Hellenistic period)

                   Cemeteries at Dion, Vergina, Hill 133 (Amphipolis), Kastri ( Thasos )

1000-900   Protogeometric pottery at Torone, Vergina, Dion, Kastanas, Toumba                                Thessalonikis, Assiros, Mende

 c 750          Offerings at Dodona start

                   Eretrians at Corcyra (Kerkyra)

Geometric pottery at Anchialos, Toumba Thessalonikis, Mende, Poseidi, Sane

 733            Corinth expels Eretrians and establishes own colony at Corcyra .

 c 730          Eretrians at Methone

                   Pydna* (Traditionally those ejected from Corcyra )

                   Eretrians at Mende*

                   Eretrians at Dikaia

 c 710          Chalcidians at Torone*

 c 700          Elis in Epirus - Bouchetion, Pandosia ? access to Dodona

 ??               Samothrace

 c 700          Achaeans at Scione

                   Neapolis

                   Aphytos

                   Sermyle

 (Note that the traditional expansion of Macedones east of the Axios, displacing Thracians is best placed between 700-650)

                   Apsidal building below Artemision at Thasos

 c 680          Paros at Thasos with Archilochus

 655-654     Andros at Acanthus*

                   Andros at Argilus

                   Andros at Sane*

                   Andros at Stagirus

                  Paros at Eion

654             Clazomenae at Abdera

                   Offerings at Thasian Artemision

                   Thasians at Galepsos

                   Thasians at Apollonia

                   Thasians at Oisyme

                   Thasians at Neapolis

                   Chios at Maroneia

                   Messembria, Dikaia, Strymi, Drys, Orthagoria, Sali, Aenos

626             Corcyra establishes colony at Epidamnus

                   ? Argilos establishes Tragilos

625             Corinth at Amphilochia

                   Corinth at Sollion, Leukas, Aktion, Anaktorion, Herakleia

                   Walls and cemetery at Abdera

 c 600          Corinth at Potidaea

                   Silver coinage of Thasos

588             Corinth at Apollonia

545             Teos refounds Abdera

c 580 - 460

Michalitsi cemetery ( Epirus )

Sindos cemetery ( Thermaic Gulf )

Vergina cemetery

Agia Paraskeve cemetery ( Thermaic Gulf )

Akanthus cemetery

Tragilos cemetery

Mende buildings

Buildings and tombs at Toumba Thessaloniki Table

Walls and houses at Argilos

Houses at Sane

Walls and reliefs at Thasos

Unfinished kouros at Thasos

K.A. Wardle, January 2012