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Crithote (Thrace)

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Crithote, also spelled Krithote, was an ancient Greek city in the Thracian Chersonesus, on the Hellespont north of Gallipoli. It was founded as an Athenian colony by Miltiades, and is named alongside Aegospotami, Cressa, and Pactya among the cities of the Thracian Chersonesus in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax.

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