Doriskos
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thumb|300px|Doriscus appears on the northern shore of the Aegean Sea. Doriscus (, Dorískos) was a settlement in ancient Thrace (modern-day Greece), on the northern shores of Aegean Sea, in a plain west of the river Hebrus. It was notable for remaining in Persian hands for many years after the Second Persian invasion of Greece, and remained thus known as the last Persian stronghold in Europe.
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- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- Alexandroupolis Municipality
- Population
- 490
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Image
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- culture
- Ancient Greece
- inception
- 0600-00-00
- Commons category
- Doriskos
- native label
- Δορίσκος
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thumb|300px|Doriscus appears on the northern shore of the Aegean Sea. Doriscus (, Dorískos) was a settlement in ancient Thrace (modern-day Greece), on the northern shores of Aegean Sea, in a plain west of the river Hebrus. It was notable for remaining in Persian hands for many years after the Second Persian invasion of Greece, and remained thus known as the last Persian stronghold in Europe.
Doriscus was founded by Darius the Great in 512 BC. He built a Royal Fortress and stationed a large number of Persian troops there at the time of his Scythian campaign.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Doriskos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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