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    Alopeconnesus was an ancient Greek city located on the western coast of Thrace. It was founded as an Aeolian colony and named after an oracle's instruction to settlers to found their colony where they first met a fox with its cub. The Platonic philosopher Menaechmus was from Alopeconnesus. Its site has been located at Anafarta Liman in modern Turkey.

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    Alopeconnesus was an ancient Greek city located on the western coast of Thrace. It was founded as an Aeolian colony and named after an oracle's instruction to settlers to found their colony where they first met a fox with its cub. The Platonic philosopher Menaechmus was from Alopeconnesus. Its site has been located at Anafarta Liman in modern Turkey.

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    Alopeconnesus was an ancient Greek city located on the western coast of Thrace. It was founded as an Aeolian colony and named after an oracle's instruction to settlers to found their colony where they first met a fox with its cub. The Platonic philosopher Menaechmus was from Alopeconnesus. Its site has been located at Anafarta Liman in modern Turkey.

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    Alopeconnesus

    Alopeconnesus or Alopekonnesos (Ancient Greek: Ἀλωπεκόννησος, "fox island") was an


    ancient Greek[1] city located on the western coast of ancient Thrace, located in the region
    of the Thracian Chersonesus. It was an Aeolian colony, and was believed to have derived its
    name from the fact that the settlers were directed by an oracle to establish the colony,
    where they should first meet a fox with its cub.[2][3][4] In the time of the Macedonian
    ascendancy, it was allied with, and under the protection of Athens.[5] Coinage of
    Alopeconnesus have survived.[6]

    The Platonic philosopher, Menaechmus (Ancient Greek: Μάναιχμος) was from Alopeconnesus
    or Prokonnesos.[7]

    Its site has been located on Anafarta Liman.[8][9]

    See also

    Greek colonies in Thrace

    References

    1. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis
    Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,Index
    2. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.

    3. Scymnus, 29; Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri (History of Rome). 31.16.

    4. Pomponius Mela. De situ orbis. 2.2.

    5. Demosthenes, de Coron. p. 256c. Aristocr. p. 675.

    6. http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/thrace/alopeconnesus/i.html

    7. Suda Encyclopedia, § mu.140 (https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/mu/140)

    8. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton
    University Press. p. 51, and directory notes accompanying.

    9. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire (http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/32295.html) .

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