Established around 290 BC, D. can be considered the most westerly of the large cities created in the Hellenistic period. The Macedonian founder, Demetrius I, gave the city his name. The choice of location in the annexed Thessalian border region of Magnesia, on the territory of Iolcus, was determined by the wish to create a base near the central Aegean Sea for the European el…
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Marzolff, Peter (Heidelberg) and
Lohmann, Hans (Bochum),
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