Ambracia

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Ambracia was an ancient Greek city in Epirus that became an important regional center and later the capital of King Pyrrhus.

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Label Occurrences
Ambracia canonical 7
Ambraciots 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek city
polis
afterConquestStatus free city under Roman influence
colonizedBy Corinth
conqueredBy Marcus Fulvius Nobilior
Roman Republic
conquestDate 189 BC
country Greece
culture Greek
currency silver coins
declineCause foundation of Nicopolis by Augustus
economy regional trade center
era Classical Greece
Hellenistic period
surface form: Hellenistic Greece

Roman Greece
flourishedInPeriod Hellenistic period
foundationPeriod 7th century BC
foundedBy Gorgus of Corinth
hasFeature harbor access via Ambracian Gulf
hasFortifications city walls
hasPublicBuilding agora
temples
theatre
hasType archaeological site
knownFor regional political importance in Epirus
role in campaigns of Pyrrhus
language Ancient Greek
locatedIn Epirus
northwestern Greece
locatedInPresentDay Epirus region of modern Greece
locatedOn Arachthos River
mentionedBy Livy
Polybius
Strabo
modernSite Arta
near Ambracian Gulf
Arta
surface form: modern city of Arta
politicalStatus capital city
regional center
religion ancient Greek religion
underRuleOf Macedonian Kingdom under the Antipatrids and Antigonids
surface form: Macedonian Kingdom

Pyrrhus of Epirus
Roman Republic
wasCapitalOf Epirus
surface form: Kingdom of Epirus

Pyrrhus of Epirus

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Corinth colonized Ambracia
Archidamian War belligerent Ambracia
Arta historicalName Ambracia
Epirote League capital Ambracia
Corinthian stater mintedIn Ambracia
Acarnanians foughtAgainst Ambracia
this entity surface form: Ambraciots