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279 BC. Naucratia/Aquitani map/Brennus invade Greece.
279 BC

The newly built trade colony of Naucratia, opens new trade routes in the Atlantic ocean for the Massaliot league. A new expedition with funds from the common treasury under Adelphius will follow Pytheas route to the North, to establish new trade hubs. Three modified quadriremes and several trade ships with more than one thousand crew,colonist and traders set sail from Naucratia. The formal diplomatic relationships with the Santones tribe lead to a new ally to the North for Massaliot League. To the South of Naucratia, there were more than twenty tribes of Aquitani, but they were small and lacking in repute. The most important tribe, the Ausci( a major trade partner of Massaliot League since the fall of Tolosa) also singed an alliance with Massalia. The Sociates,Bigerrones and most of the others small tribes of the area were rather hostile to the Greeks.


  • The formal Allies of Masaliot league are Santones,Ausci and Sequani.
  • News from Italy reports that Romans are loosing the war against Pyrrhus.
  • Rome and Pyrrhus both have friends is the assembly forcing Massaliot League stay neutral.
  • Formal relations establish with Achaean league and Rhode.
  • A new non aggression treaty singed with Carthage





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Greece
  • An army of Gauls under Brennus invade Greece. A section of the army, commanded by Bolgios, crushes a Macedonian army led by Ptolemy Keraunos, who is killed in the battle. At the narrow pass of Thermopylae, on the east coast of central Greece, Brennus' forces suffer heavy losses while trying to break through the Greek defence comprising the Phocians and the Aetolians. Eventually Brennus finds a way around the pass but the Greeks escape by sea. Brennus pushes on to Delphi where he is defeated and forced to retreat, after which he dies of wounds sustained in the battle. His army falls back to the river Spercheios where it is routed byThessalians and Malians. Some of the survivors settle in a part of Asia Minor that will eventually be called Galatia, while some settle in Thrace, founding a short-lived city-state named Tylis.
Roman Republic
  • The Carthaginians and the Romans agree to support each other against a common foe. The Carthaginians give Rome money and ships in their fight against Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus.
  • Pyrrhus realizes that he cannot capture Rome and suggests peace terms to the Romans. Pyrrhus sends his chief advisor, Cineas, to Rome to negotiate a peace. Cineas demands that the Romans halt their aggression against the Greeks of southern Italy and restore the lands the Romans have taken from the Bruttii, the Apulians, and the Samnites. The Romans reject his demands, largely at the instigation of the former Roman censor, Appius Claudius Caecus.
  • In renewed fighting, Pyrrhus of Epirus, leading the combined Tarantine, Oscan, Samnite, and Greek forces, wins a 'Pyrrhic victory' against the Romans led by consul Publius Decius Mus at the Battle of Asculum, called such because his victory comes at a great cost to his own forces. Pyrrhus is reported to have said afterwards, "One more victory against the Romans and we shall be utterly ruined!" Disheartened, Pyrrhus retires to Tarentum and sends Cineas to make renewed peace overtures to Rome. These talks are inconclusive.
Egypt
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