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This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.

[edit] Pre-Roman adria

In An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis by Mogens Herman,ISBN 0198140991,2004
  • Page 228,Dionysios I founded Adranon (no. 6) (Diod. 14.37.5 (r399)), probably Adria (no. 75), possibly Ankon (no. 76), certainly Issa (no. 81); cf. Stylianou (1998) ad 13.4-5 at p. 196), Lissos (no. ..."
  • Page 320,"... 52o-51o, and is therefore somewhat later than that known at the Padanian sites of Spina (no. 85) and Adria (no. 75). The region functioned as a commercial intermediary between Greece and Etruria, and the Celtic regions in the north ..."
  • Page 323,"... the face of the advancing Gauls. According to Strabo 8.6.16, Aiginetans founded a colony en ombrikois, probably archaeologically attested in Adria (no. 75). ..
  • Page 324,"... = Tod 200). The location of the planned colony is unknown and a matter of conjecture-somewhere in the vicinity of Adria (no. 75) and Spina (no. 85), where Athens had strong C5 trade contacts, or on the coast of Apulia in ..."
  • page 325,In C4f Adria was, apparently, refounded by Dionysios I (Theopomp. fr. 128; Tzetzes ad Lycophr. 631; Etym. Magn. 1854-57). According to Just. Epit. ..."
  • page 333,"1 greci di Adria", RivStorAnt 4:1-21. ..."
  • As a long-distance trading community, Aigina was not an active coloniser, but colonised Kydonia (no. 968) in 519, Adria (no. 75) c.C61, and Damastion in Illyria after 431 (Strabo 8.6.16).
  • In the listing at the last pages Adria is shown as founded by Aigina(Primary colony) and refounded by Syracuse(Secondary colony).
  • Note that Dionysius I or Dionysius the Elder lived 432–367 BC.Megistias (talk) 21:47, 21 February 2008 (UTC)