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AVDIRA (Small town) XANTHI
Especially significant is the route of Avdera through Byzantine and
post-Byzantine times. The town was renamed to Polystylon (because of the many
columns), it was the base of the Bishopric it was significant navigational town.
In the later years the inhabitants of Byzantine Polystylon abandoned
the coastal area and moved to the inland where the present village was established
(in about 1720). The first settling spread around the church where today there
are the beautiful traditional houses as well as the restored school in which the
traditional museum of Avdera is housed.
The archaeological excavation which started in the region in 1950
by the significant archeologist Dimitrios Lazaridis brought to light several parts
of the ancient city of Avdera.
The walls, the Acropolis of ancient theatre, the classic and Hellenistic cemetery,
Byzantine Acropolis "Polystylon" and the Episcopal temple.
Many of the most valuable findings are exhibited in the newly established
Archaeological museum
of Avdera where the visitor can admire the great History and Spirit of Avdera.
Last sopping in the route of Municipality
of Avdera and we reach the Minor
Asia catastrophe and the exchange of population. The villages of Myrodato,
New Kessani, Pezoula
and Giona, are inhabited
by refugees of east Thrace
and east Romilia who were expelled from their countries and headed for the inland
of Thrace where with hard
work and many difficulties established the present villages. Also the village
of Mandra is inhabited by
refugees who came from the Serdivan Town. Typical feature of the refugees historical
route are the rare heirloom, the books and other items of great value which with
great belief and adoration they delivered on the day of the expulsion.
This text (extract) is cited October 2003 from the Municipality
of Avdera tourist pamphlet.
When Charisander was archon at Athens, the Romans elected four military tribunes with consular power, Servius Sulpicius, Lucius Papirius, Titus Quinctius; and the Eleians celebrated the one hundred first Olympiad, in which Damon of Thurii won the stadium race. During their term of office, in Thrace the Triballians, suffering from a famine, moved in full force into territory beyond their borders and obtained food from the land not their own. More than thirty thousand invaded the adjacent part of Thrace and ravaged with impunity the territory of Abdera; and after seizing a large quantity of booty they were making their way homeward in a contemptuous and disorderly fashion when the inhabitants of Abdera took the field in full force against them and slew more than two thousand of them as they straggled in disorder homewards.
This extract is from: Diodorus Siculus, Library (ed. C. H. Oldfather, 1989). Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
After the battle of Philippi. They were under the leadeship of Hortensius, son of the homonyme orator. This event constituted the beginning of the Roman dominion.
Teos also is situated on a peninsula; and it has a harbor. Anacreon the melic poet was from Teos; in whose time the Teians abandoned their city and migrated to, Abdera, a Thracian city, being unable to bear the insolence of the Persians; and hence the verse in reference to Abdera. (Strabo 14,1,30)
The Mythology and history chose Hercules and Timisios as the founders
of the town of Avdera. The truth is only one, Avdera has been traveling to the
eternity since 556 B.C. dressed with the light of civilization.
The first to come to the region were the Clazomenians in 656/652 B.C.
Under the leadership of Timesios, they founded their own city and fortified it
with strong walls. This colony gradually declined and Avdera was refounded by
Teian settlers in 545 B.C.
Given that Teian settlement was located on a site, which was advantageous
for trade with the Thracian hinterland and more over featured two harbours and
a rich arable land, it shortly turned out to be one of the most flourishing cities
in the northern Aegean. Typical feature of the city's great commercial activity
was the looming activity of minting. In the city there was a royal mint where
coins of the Great Alexander were produced. The finding of the coins of Avdera,
bearing the emblem of a griffin, in places as remote as Egypt,
Syria and Mesopotamia,
manifests the scale and the dynamics of the city trade.
In the flourishing city of Avdera, which had been greatly influenced
by the cultural life of Ionia,
well-known poets, sophists and philosophers were born and lived. Democritos, the
great materialist philosopher, who founded the atom theory, the sophist Protagoras,
the spirit teacher Leukippos, Anaxarchos, Hecataeos the grammarian, Vion the mathematician
are some of the significant spirit men of Avdera.
This text (extract) is cited October 2003 from the Municipality
of Avdera tourist pamphlet.
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