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Headword: *lusima/xeia
Adler number: lambda,861
Translated headword: Lysimakheia, Lysimacheia, Lysimachea
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Name of a city.
Greek Original:
*lusima/xeia: o)/noma po/lews.
Notes:
Though cities of this name are known in Akarnania (NW Greece), Aiolis, and elsewhere, the best-known one -- which has probably generated the present entry -- was the one founded by Lysimachos (see OCD(4) s.v., and under alpha 1862, etc.) as capital for his Thrakian realm. This was on the site of Polis Agora (present-day Bolayir) in the Thrakian Chersonese, at the neck of land there; Barrington Atlas map 51 grid H3.
Lysimachos joined Kardia (kappa 364) and Paktye (see under pi 33) into his new settlement, the former controlling the head of the Gulf of Saros, the latter controlling the entrance to the Hellespont.
References:
Cohen, Getzel M. The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, pp. 82-87
Sayar, M. "Zur Lade Von Lysimacheia: eine hellenistische Hauptstadt auf der thrakischen Chersones", Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Thracology, Komotini-Alexandroupoli 18-23 October 2005. Athens 2007, pp. 514-517
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; history
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 December 2000@06:48:26.
Vetted by:
Nicholas Fincher (added note and headword) on 17 July 2003@02:03:58.
David Whitehead (augmented headword; added x-ref and keywords; cosmetics; raised status) on 17 July 2003@04:57:42.
Mehmet Fatih Yavuz (augmented notes, added bibliography) on 27 October 2008@05:22:32.
Mehmet Fatih Yavuz (augmented bibliography.) on 17 December 2009@14:35:50.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 27 July 2011@07:30:04.
David Whitehead on 5 August 2014@03:59:10.

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