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Methone (Macedonia)
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Methone, also called Thracian or Macedonian Methone to distinguish it from numerous other ancient towns of the same name, was a city-state in ancient Greece near Pydna and the modern village of Nea Agathoupolis in Pieria. According to Plutarch it was founded as a Greek colony in 733 or 732 BC, and it gained particular importance from the discovery of labeled pottery and potsherds, among the oldest surviving evidence of Greek writing and an important site in the history of Pieria.
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