{"slug": "potidaea", "label": "Potidaea", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potidaea", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q999468", "qid": "Q999468", "description": "ancient city of Chalcidice", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [-478, -355], "span_label": ["479 BCE", "356 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "ancient-corinth", "label": "Ancient Corinth", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "pericles", "label": "Pericles", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "amphipolis", "label": "Amphipolis", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "black-sea", "label": "Black Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "corfu", "label": "Corfu", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "corcyra", "label": "Corcyra", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thessaly", "label": "Thessaly", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "philip-ii-of-macedon", "label": "Philip II of Macedon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iphicrates", "label": "Iphicrates", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "timotheus-general", "label": "Timotheus (general)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "macedon", "label": "Macedon", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -478, "year_label": "479 BCE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "Potidaea is struck by a tsunami.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129373#Greece", "title": "479 BC", "revid": 1350129373, "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": -433, "year_label": "434 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Philip, brother of Perdiccas II of Macedon challenges Perdiccas for the throne, and enlists the support of Athens and King Derdas of Elimea. Perdiccas responds by stirring up rebellion in a number of Athenian tribute cities, including Potidaea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1317718470#Greece", "title": "434 BC", "revid": 1317718470, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -432, "year_label": "433 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Pericles concludes a defensive alliance with Corcyra (Corfu), the strong naval power in the Ionian Sea, which is the bitter enemy of Corinth. As a result, Athens intervenes in the dispute between Corinth and Corcyra, and, at the Battle of Sybota, a small contingent of Athenian ships play a critical role in preventing a Corinthian fleet from capturing Corcyra. Following this, Athens places Potidaea, a tributary ally of Athens but a colony of Corinth, under siege.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173211#Greece", "title": "433 BC", "revid": 1354173211, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -431, "year_label": "432 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Athenian admiral, Phormio, continues the siege of Potidaea by blocking the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth. Meanwhile an Athenian fleet, led by Archestratus, sails for Potidaea. However, instead of attacking Potidaea, they attack the Macedonians under Perdiccas II, who have allied with the Potidaeans. The Athenians capture Therma (modern Thessalonica) and then go on to besiege Pydna. However, as the Athenians are besieging Pydna, they receive news that Corinth has sent a force under the command of Aristeus to support Potidaea. In response, Athens sends more troops and ships under the command of Hipponicus. The combined Athenian force sails to Potidaea and lands there. In the ensuing Battle of Potidaea, the Athenians are victorious against Corinth and its allies.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330384213#Greece", "title": "432 BC", "revid": 1330384213, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -429, "year_label": "430 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Potidaea finally capitulates to the siege by Athenian forces in the winter.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342662145#Greece", "title": "430 BC", "revid": 1342662145, "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"}}]}