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243 BC. The end of the Triandria alliance.
243 BC
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Crete
The end of Triandria alliance.
Years of tensions between Spartan settlers and local Cretan population lead to indirect Ptolemaic interference. With this support the Cretans manage to siege and conquer the two main settlements of Sparta in North West Crete. The Spartan king Cleomenes III, furious by this asks Alexander II of Epirus to help him against the Ptolemaic empire. Alexander II looking for an excuse to break the alliance with Ptolemy and expand his area of control in North Aegean, gladly accepts. Rhodes League, Syracuse and Massaliot League decided to stay neutral.
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By place
Crete
The end of Triandria alliance.
Years of tensions between Spartan settlers and local Cretan population lead to indirect Ptolemaic interference. With this support the Cretans manage to siege and conquer the two main settlements of Sparta in North West Crete. The Spartan king Cleomenes III, furious by this asks Alexander II of Epirus to help him against the Ptolemaic empire. Alexander II looking for an excuse to break the alliance with Ptolemy and expand his area of control in North Aegean, gladly accepts. Rhodes League, Syracuse and Massaliot League decided to stay neutral.
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