What the records say
- When
- 277 BCE
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 40.58° N, 26.88° E
- Description
- 227 BCE Antigonid over the Gauls in Greece,battle
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Battle of Lysimachia
277 BC Antigonid victory over the Gauls in Greece
The Battle of Lysimachia was fought in 277 BC between the Gallic tribes settled in Thrace and a Greek army of Antigonus at Lysimachia, Thracian Chersonese. After the Greek defeat at Battle of Thermopylae, the Gauls retreated out of Greece and moved through Thrace and finally into Asia.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Antigonus crosses the Hellespont and defeats the Celts under the command of Cerethrius at the Battle of Lysimachia near Lysimachia at the neck of the Thracian…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page