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Ancient Mende was specifically recorded by Thucydides as an Eretrian colony, which was founded in the Pallene, the western-most prong of the Chalcidike peninsula. However, apart from Strabo’s clear statement that both Eretria and Chalcis were exceptionally enlarged when they sent out colonies to “Macedonia”» there is not sufficient literary evidence for the dating of the Eretrian and the Chalcidian colonial settlements in the area of the Chalcidike. This confused picture that we have, so far,... |
