Potidaea
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__NOTOC__ thumb|upright=1.3|Map of ancient Chalcidice, showing peninsula of Pallene and Potidaea thumb|upright=1.3|Coinage of Potidaia, circa 525-500 BC. Obv: Horseman holding trident; star below. Rev: Head of female right, with Archaic features, in linear square within incuse square. thumb|Remains of the city wall of Potidaea. Potidaea (; , Potidaia, also Ποτείδαια, Poteidaia) was a colony founded by the Corinthians around 600 BC in the narrowest point of the peninsula of Pallene, the westernmost of three peninsulas at the southern end of Chalcidice in northern Greece.
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__NOTOC__ thumb|upright=1.3|Map of ancient Chalcidice, showing peninsula of Pallene and Potidaea thumb|upright=1.3|Coinage of Potidaia, circa 525-500 BC. Obv: Horseman holding trident; star below. Rev: Head of female right, with Archaic features, in linear square within incuse square. thumb|Remains of the city wall of Potidaea. Potidaea (; , Potidaia, also Ποτείδαια, Poteidaia) was a colony founded by the Corinthians around 600 BC in the narrowest point of the peninsula of Pallene, the westernmost of three peninsulas at the southern end of Chalcidice in northern Greece.
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