Sigeion

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Sigeion ( Greek  Σίγειον , Latin Sigeum ) was in ancient times the name of a promontory in the west of the Asia Minor landscape of Troas and a Greek city on this promontory at the entrance to the Hellespont ( Dardanelles ).

Sigeion was originally settled by Aeolians from Mytilene . Around 600 BC Settlers from Athens settled there under the leadership of the Olympic champion Phrynon. After prolonged fighting between Athenians and Mytilenern during which Phrynon vies with Pittacus fell and the poet Alkaios from the battle fled, it came under the mediation of the Corinthian tyrant Periander to a truce, and Mytilene founded near the settlement Achillion . Another conflict broke out around 540 BC. In the course of which the Attic tyrant Peisistratos installed his son Hegesistratos as ruler of Sigeion. After his expulsion from Athens in 510 BC. Peisistratos' son and successor Hippias settled in Sigeion, which was now under Persian suzerainty. The city belonged to the Delisch-Attic League in the 5th century . During the Diadoch Wars , Sigeion was conquered by Lysimachus and in the 3rd century BC. Destroyed by the neighboring Ilion .

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Coordinates: 39 ° 59 '  N , 26 ° 11'  E