City
Mesambria (Aegean Sea)
Southern Europe
Mesambria, also spelled Mesembria, was an ancient Greek city on the coast of ancient Thrace, on the Aegean Sea in what is now Greece. According to Herodotus it was founded by settlers from Samothrace and stood near the city of Stryme, and the army of the Persian king Xerxes passed through it during his invasion of Greece in 480 BC. Its site is tentatively placed west of the modern city of Alexandroupolis. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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1. Mesambria (Aegean Sea) (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 40.86333, longitude 25.63855
Mesambria (Aegean Sea) (Wikipedia)
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Mesambria (Ancient Greek: Μεσαμβρία), or Mesembria (Μεσημβρία), was an ancient Greek city located in ancient Thrace, on the coast of the Aegean Sea.
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