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City of ancient Thrace on the Aegean Sea nearly opposite Thasos. First settled in the 7th century , it was colonized a second time 540 . A prosperous member of the Delian League, it was crippled in the 4th century by Thracian invasions. It was the home of Democritus and Protagoras.
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Abdēra, Greek city on the coast of Thrace, founded in the seventh century BC and refounded in the sixth by Ionians from Teos in Asia Minor, among them the Greek lyric poet Anacreon. It was the birthplace of the sophist Protagoras and the philosopher Democritus, but was nevertheless proverbial for the stupidity of its inhabitants.
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Abdēra
Abdera (ăbdē'rə) or Avdira (ävdē'rä), town, NE Greece, in Thrace, near the mouth of the Mesta River. It is a small agricultural settlement. Founded (c.650 B.C.) by colonists from Clazomenae, it was destroyed by the Thracians (c.550 B.C.) and rebuilt (c.500 B.C.) by refugees from Teos. The town passed to Macedon in 352 B.C. and in 198 B.C. became a free city under Roman rule. The term Abderite was used by the ancient Greeks as a synonym for stupid. However, the philosophers Protagoras, Leucippus, and Democritus lived there.
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Abdera
Abdera is the name of two ancient cities:
- Abdera, Thrace (in Ancient Greece a synonym for Gotham)
- Abdera, Spain
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