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294 BC.
294 BC

With the city of Croton in Magna Grecia under the rule of tyrant Agathocles, almost half of the town deserted(mostly the democrats). The Massaliot fleet helped more than eight thousands Croton greeks resettle to Massaliot league new lands. The destruction of Vocontii tribe and the new trade hubs in Vesontio and Mesachora help Massalia to control now almost complete the highly profitable trade of Rhone river. The relations with neighbour Gauls are improved. The alliance with the Sequani tribe is getting stronger and so are the relations with the Aedui. The Averni and Volcae tribes also start to trade again with Massalia but with caution.


  • The Massalia league reached one hundred thousands population and Massalia almost fifty thousand population.
  • The league common treasury is flourishing more and more and the same happens with the two companies.
  • Polemon an eminent Platonist philosopher and Plato's third successor as scholarch or head of the academy of Athens invited by the company of dynatoi to organise their academy.
  • Under the suggestion of Polemon the dynatoi company created their private common treasure.
  • To deal with the pirate raids near Emporion, the company of Palaioi sponsored five quinqueremes for the fleet of Massalia which now consist of fifteen quinquereme and twenty quadrireme and several smaller ships.
  • With money from the common treasury of Massalian league, Adelphius started an expedition to ptolemaic egypt to establish a formal trade route and diplomatic relations.
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Greece
  • Archidamus IV, king of Sparta, son of Eudamidas I and grandson of Archidamus III, is defeated by Demetrius Poliorcetes of Macedonia in a battle at Mantinea. Sparta is saved only because Demetrius is called away by the threatening activities of his rivals Lysimachus and Ptolemy.
  • Alexander V of Macedon is ousted by his brother, Antipater II. Therefore Alexander V turns to Demetrius Poliorcetes for help in recovering his throne. However, Demetrius Poliorcetes establishes himself on the throne of Macedonia and then murders Alexander V. Antipater II loses the throne of Macedonia but is able to survive.
  • Pyrrhus of Epirus exploits the dynastic quarrel in Macedonia involving Alexander V of Macedon, his brother, Antipater II and Demetrius Poliorcetes to take over the frontier areas of Parauaea and Tymphaea, along with Acarnania, Ampholochia, and Ambracia.
  • Lysimachus concludes a peace with Demetrius Poliorcetes whereby Demetrius Poliorcetes is recognized as ruler of Macedonia.
Egypt
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