Lysimachia (Thrace)
Also known as: Mint of Lysimachia
Community · LysimachusLysimachia was an important Hellenistic Greek town on the north-western extremity of the Thracian Chersonese in the neck where the peninsula joins the mainland in what is now the European part of Turkey, not far from the bay of Melas.
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city founded by Lysimachus
Lysimachus founded this city on the Gallipoli peninsula as his capital, demonstrating his efforts to consolidate control over the Hellespont.