{"slug": "chalkidiki", "label": "Chalkidiki", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalkidiki", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q204728", "qid": "Q204728", "description": "peninsula of Macedonia, Greece", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [-654, -347], "span_label": ["655 BCE", "348 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}], "also_known_as": ["Chalcidice"], "related": [{"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "amphipolis", "label": "Amphipolis", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "thessaly", "label": "Thessaly", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "philip-ii-of-macedon", "label": "Philip II of Macedon", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "potidaea", "label": "Potidaea", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "iphicrates", "label": "Iphicrates", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "timotheus-general", "label": "Timotheus (general)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "macedonia-ancient-kingdom", "label": "Macedonia (ancient kingdom)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ancient-corinth", "label": "Ancient Corinth", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "black-sea", "label": "Black Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pericles", "label": "Pericles", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "euboea", "label": "Euboea", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -654, "year_label": "655 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Stagira on the Chalkidiki peninsula is founded by Ionian settlers from Andros.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372393593#Greece", "title": "655 BC", "revid": 1372393593, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -435, "year_label": "436 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Following Pericles' visit to the Black Sea, a large Athenian colony is founded at Amphipolis. This is disconcertingly close to an outpost of Corinthian influence at Potidaea in the Chalcidice. Corinth feels it is being indirectly pressured by Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173296#Greece", "title": "436 BC", "revid": 1354173296, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -423, "year_label": "424 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "After he frustrates the Athenian attack on Megara, Brasidas marches through Boeotia and Thessaly to Chalcidice at the head of 700 helots and 1000 Peloponnesian mercenaries to join the Macedonian king Perdiccas II. Refusing to be made a tool for the furtherance of Perdiccas' ambitions, Brasidas wins over the important cities of Acanthus, Stagirus, Amphipolis, and Torone as well as several minor towns. An attack on Eion is foiled by the arrival of Thucydides at the head of an Athenian squadron.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1231841566#Greece", "title": "424 BC", "revid": 1231841566, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -382, "year_label": "383 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "King Amyntas III of Macedon, forms a temporary alliance with the Chalcidian League, a confederation of cities of the Chalcidice peninsula, east of Macedonia. Sparta, whose policy is to keep Greeks disunited, sends an expedition northwards to disrupt the Chalcidian League.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363328705#Greece", "title": "383 BC", "revid": 1363328705, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -355, "year_label": "356 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Philip II of Macedon secretly offers the city of Amphipolis back to the Athenians in exchange for the valuable port of Pydna. Despite the Athenians being willing to comply, both Pydna and Potidaea are conquered by the Macedonians (along with other Athenian strongholds in Thessaly and Chalcidice) despite being defended by Athenian forces led by general and mercenary commander, Chares, as well as generals Iphicrates and Timotheus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343819365#Greece", "title": "356 BC", "revid": 1343819365, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -355, "year_label": "356 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Having blamed their defeats to Philip II in Thessaly and Chalcidice on his colleagues (Iphicrates and Timotheus), Chares is left in sole command of the Athenian fleet. Chares, in need of money for his war effort, frowns upon asking it from Athens, so, partly compelled by his mercenaries, he enters the service of the insurgent Achaemenid satrap of Phrygia Artabazus who rewards Chares very generously.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343819365#Persian_Empire", "title": "356 BC", "revid": 1343819365, "section": "Events › By place › Persian Empire"}}, {"year": -347, "year_label": "348 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Athenian help to its cities in Macedonia is diverted by a revolt in Euboea which Philip II of Macedon has fomented. He conquers the city of Olynthus in the Chalcidice and he annexes Chalcidice to Macedonia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209992031#Greece", "title": "348 BC", "revid": 1209992031, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}]}