Antandrus

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Antandrus was a Greek colony on the north side of the Adramyttian gulf in the the Troad region of Anatolia, near the modern villiage of Avcilar in Turkey. It was founded in the 5th century BC by Aeolians from Mytilene. During the Peloponnesian War and the Corinthian War, it became a military objective in the region. It was used as a naval base, and changed hands on several occasions.

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• The Archaelogical Atlas of the Aegean, University of Athens. "Avcilar / Antandrus (Antadros)"
• Thucydides; The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910. 
• Xenophon: Hellenica on Wikisource