Ancient Coin Stories

Pitane is founded by colonists from Lesbos.

Kyzikos receives colonies from Miletos.

Parion is founded by settlers from Miletos.

Artake is founded by settlers from Miletos.

Prokonnesos is founded by settlers from Miletos.

Additional settlers from Miletos migrate to Kyzikos.

Lampsakos founded by settlers from Phokaia and Miletos.

Apollonia ad Rhyndakum is founded by settlers from Miletos.

Eresos, Kyme, Mytiliene, Methymna, Pitane, Eliaia, Larissa, Neonteichos, Aigai, Antandros, Temnos, Gryneion, and Smyrna become members of the Aeolian League, an association of Greek city-states in the region.

With the downfall of the Kingdom of Lydia, Adramytteion, Parion, Phokaia, and Aigai go under the Persian Empire.

Darius I destroyed Abydos and takes Byzantion and Sestos as part of his Scythian campaign, in which troops from Parion take part.

During the Ionian revolt (year approximate), Artake and Prokonnesos are burned by the Persians.

Xerxes’ army marches out of Sardis and passes through Atarneos, Thebe, Adramytteion, Antandros, Ilion, Gergis, and Abydos on its way to Greece. Its temporary headquarters is at Elaios.

Lampsakos joins the Delian League and is assessed 12 talents by Athens.

Artake first appears in tribute lists of the Delian League.

Anaxagoras retires to Lampsakos after a trial in Athens.

The satrap of Phrygia, Pharnakes, offers asylum in Adramytteion to exiles from Delos.

An Athenian fleet under Thrasybulus barely defeats a Spartan fleet at the Battle of Kynossema. Three days afterward, several boats from Harpagion are captured.

Madytos and Parion serve as bases for the Athenian navy.

An Athenian fleet under Alkibiades, Thrasybulos, and Theramenes defeats the Spartans at the Battle of Kyzikos. Afterwards, Sparta offers peace but is rejected.

Prokonnesos is conquered for Athens by Alkibiades.

Lysander destroys the Athenian fleet at the mouth of the Aigiospotamoi. Just before, the Athenian triremes arrive at Elaios to discover that Lysander is in control of Lampsakos.

Peloponnesian War ends in an Athenian surrender, and as a result Adramytteion is ruled by Mytilene. Residents of Aegina are allowed to return to their island.

The 10,000, as described in Xenophon’s Anabasis, travel through Antandros and Adramytteion.

Deryklidas of Sparta supports the Ionian Greeks against the Persians. He besieges Atarneos for eight months until they accept his terms and takes Hamaxitos, Kolonai, and Ilion. This ends in an armistice with Pharnabazos.

Xenophon mentions that the ruler of Gambrion and Gryneion is Gorgion, son of Gorgylos.

Xenophon’s command of the 10,000 ends at Pergamon.

Peace of Antalkidas, arranged by Artaxerxes II, is signed in Susa, ending the Corinthian War. Abydos, Aigai, Kalchedon, Kaunos, Klazomenai, Kyzikos, Parion, Samos, and Adramytteion become part of the Persian Empire.

Estimated birth of Anaximenes in Lampsakos.

Autophradates besieged Ariobarzanes, who was participating in the Great Satraps Revolt, in Adramytteion.

Adramytteion abandoned with arrival of the Spartan king, Agesilaos II.

Orontas takes a leadership role in the Great Satraps Revolt. He then switches his allegiance to Artaxerxes II. He uses Pergamon as his base.

Orontas revolts again and takes Pergamon. He eventually reconciles with Artaxerxes III and ends the revolt.

Hermeios becomes tyrant of Atarneos.

Either Memnon of Rhodes or his brother Mentor capture Hermeios, tyrant of Atarneos, and put him to death.

Memnon of Rhodes is tasked by Darius III with taking Kyzikos and nearly does. It is defended by Kalas.

Abydos is besieged by Memnon of Rhodes, forcing Parmenion to give up his siege of Pitane.

Alexander the Great captures Kyzikos and commissions the effort to connect it to the mainland.

Anaximenes supposedly tricks Alexander III into not destroying Lampsakos.

Priapos surrenders to Panegoros, a general under Alexander III.

The Battle of the Granicus, during which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III, and after which Adramytteion and Kaunos come under his control. Kalas participates with the Thessalian cavalry under Parmenion. Perdikkas serves on the right.

Partition of Babylon. Abydos and Adramytteion come under control of Leonnatos. Egypt with Alexandria and Gaza are under Ptolemy. Baktria comes under Seleukos I Nikator. Asandros obtains Caria. Laomedon receives Koele-Syria.

Adramytteion seized by Antigonos I Monophthalmos.

Arrhidaios, the governor of Hellespontine Phrygia, besieges Kyzikos, who are under Antigonos Monophthalmos.

Herakleitos of Pitane, son of Lysistratos, is honored for some reason in Delphi.

The Ilion Federation is adopted with members Ilion, Dardanos, Skepsis, Assos, Alexandria Troas, Abydos, Lampsakos, Gargara, and Parion, with its religious center the Temple of Athena at Ilion.

Adramytteion and Ephesos are taken by Prepalaos, a general under Lysimachos.

Lysimachos appoints Philetairos commander of Pergamon, including its vast treasury.

Demetrios Poliorketes ravages the territory of Lysimachos and takes Lampsakos twice without holding it.

Philetairos deserts Lysimachos and offers Pergamon to Seleukos I Nikator. This begins the Kingdom of Pergamon.

Lysimachos defeated at the Battle of Coropedion. Adramytteion, Ainos, and Abydos come under control of the Seleukid Empire. Ephesos returns to its original name.

Philetairos provides food and aid to Kyzikos against invading Gauls.

Eumenes I becomes ruler of the Kingdom of Pergamon after the death of Philetairos.

Antiochos I Soter is defeated while attempting to retake Pergamon by the Attalid Eumenes I in a battle near Sardis.

Attalos attacks the forces of the usurper Adaios and defeats him, then engages in friendly negotiations with Lampsakos, Alexandria Troas, and Ilion, all of which had remained loyal to him.

Death of Eumenes I. Attalos I becomes king of the Attalid Kingdom of Pergamon.

Construction of the Library of Pergamon begins.

Aigai recaptured by Attalos I of Pergamon.

Pergamon, Kyzikos, and Byzantion join the Cretan War on the side of Rhodes.

Countryside around Adramytteion pillaged by Philip V of Macedon.

Philip V of Macedon winters his fleet at Bargylia while blockaded by the fleets of Pergamon and Rhodes.

During the Second Macedonian War between Rome and Philip V of Macedon, Aegira, the Aetolian League, Corinth, Sikyon, Patrai, Athens, Pergamon, and Rhodes support Rome.

Andros captured by a fleet of Rome, Pergamon, and Rhodes. It becomes part of the Attalid Kingdom.

Death of Attalos I of Pergamon. Eumenes II becomes king.

Smyrna creates a cult of Rome in order to foster closer ties to Rome and break with the Kingdom of Pergamon.

Antiochos III, desiring to meet Rome in battle, is detained by the cities of Alexandria Troas, Smyrna, and Lampsakos, which refused entreaties.

Tralleis is taken by the Kingdom of Pergamon.

New city walls are constructed in Pergamon.

Priansos and other cities in Crete sign an alliance with Eumenes II of Pergamon.

The Pergamon Altar is constructed.

Attalos II ascends the throne of Pergamon.

The Library at Pergamon reaches its peak form.

Death of Attalos II of Pergamon. Attalos III ascends the throne.

Adramytteion, Smyrna, Sestos, Synnada, Laodikeia ad Lykon, Attalaia, Erythrai, Ephesos, Perge, and Assos come under Roman control after Attalos III, the last Attalid king, leaves it to Rome in his will.

The Roman consul Publius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus is killed by Eumenes III, pretender to the throne of Pergamon, at Leukai.

Manius Aquillius is governor of Asia and rebuilds the road from Adramytteion to Smyrna.

The Kingdom of Pergamon is fully incorporated into the Roman Empire, bringing Aigai, Pergamon, Ephesos, Smyrna, Thyateira, Sardis, Magnesia, Kyzikos, Miletos, and Kolophon under its domain.

Adramytteion, Ephesos, Pergamon, Magnesia, Tralles, Apamea, Samos, Kolophon, Smyrna, and Sardis occupied by Mithridates VI as part of the Mithridatic Wars against Rome.

Mithridates VI makes Pergamon his headquarters of his war against Rome.

Sulla defeats Mithridates VI and ends the Mithridatic Wars with the Treaty of Dardanos. Adramytteion, Ephesos, Pergamon, Smyrna, Sardis, Tralles, Kolophon, Apamea, and Magnesia return to Roman control.

Sulla uses Kypsela as a base while Mithridates uses Pergamon, and between these places they meet.

Mithridates VI flees to Pitane to evade Gaius Flavius Fimbria, then moves on to Mytilene.

Kyzikos is defended by the Romans against a siege by Mithridates VI.

Marc Antony seizes 200,000 scrolls from the Library at Pergamon and gifts them to Kleopatra for the Library at Alexandria.

Augustus makes Ephesos the capital of Asia over the previous Pergamon.

Adramytteion, Aigai, Apollonis, Smyrna, Sardis and Magnesia are severely damaged by an earthquake. Tiberius provides financial support.

Per Acts 27:2, Adramytteion is the location where the Apostle Paul is transported as a prisoner.

Adramytteion severely damaged during an earthquake. Trajan provides funds to rebuild it.

The Emperor Hadrian founds Hadrianotherea to commemorate a successful hunt.

Hadrian puts plans into place to complete the Temple of Zeus at Kyzikos.

Hadrian elevates Kyzikos, Pergamon, Smyrna, Ephesos and Sardes as region centers for the imperial cult.

An earthquake destroys Kyzikos, including the newly built Temple to Hadrian. Funds for its rebuilding are allocated by Antoninus Pius.

Adramytteion, Ephesos, Smyrna, Magnesia, Pergamon, Nikaia, and Kyzikos suffer damage during an invasion of the Goths.