Sellasia (Greek: Σελλασία, before 1929: Βρουλιά - Vroulia[2]) is a village in Laconia, Greece. It was the seat of the former municipality Oinountas. Since 2011, it is part of the municipality of Sparta. Sellasia is situated on the edge of the Eurotas valley, 10 km north of Sparta. The Greek National Road 39 (Sparta - Tripoli) passes east of the village. Sellasia is known for the cultivation of olives.
^"Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
Sellasia (Greek: Σελλασία, before 1929: Βρουλιά - Vroulia) is a village in Laconia, Greece. It was the seat of the former municipality Oinountas. Since...
The Battle of Sellasia took place during the summer of 222 BC between Macedon and the Achaean League, led by Antigonus III Doson, and Sparta under the...
king Antigonos Doson, who decisively defeated Cleomenes in the battle of Sellasia in 222. In 235 BC, Cleomenes III (r. 235–222 BC) ascended the throne of...
erstwhile enemy, Macedon. Cleomenes III was defeated at the Battle of Sellasia by the joint forces of the Achaean League and Antigonus III Doson, the...
of the Macedonian King, Antigonus III Doson, who defeated Cleomenes at Sellasia. Antigonus Doson re-established Macedonian control over much of the region...
were most likely naked and armed with only a dagger. During the Battle of Sellasia, the Spartan king Cleomenes III "called Damoteles, the commander of the...
pharmaceutical company today. On the side of his father, he is originally from Sellasia, Laconia. In 2004, Dimitris Giannakopoulos became the first Vice President...
had blocked all the mountain passes except for one. It was there, near Sellasia, that Cleomenes waited with his army. Philopoemen commanded a cavalry force...
Spartan power. Sparta's bid for supremacy was crushed at the Battle of Sellasia (222 BC) by the Achaean league and Macedon, who restored the power of the...
then the most productive agricultural region in the peninsula. Battle of Sellasia: Cleomenes III of Sparta is defeated by Antigonus III and his allies (the...
crops in the northern part of the prefecture, and affected the area of Sellasia along with Oinountas and its surrounding areas. Firefighters, helicopters...
235 – 222 BC Cleomenes III Exiled after the Battle of Sellasia Following the Battle of Sellasia, the dual monarchy remained vacant until Cleomenes III's...
Aratus of Sicyon. After being defeated by the Achaeans in the Battle of Sellasia in 222 BC, he fled to Ptolemaic Egypt. After a failed revolt in 219 BC...
Qin State conquers Yan and Zhao. 222 BC: Spartan defeat in the Battle of Sellasia ends the Cleomenean War. 221 BC: With the conquest of the State of Qi,...
where he might have fled alongside Cleomenes III after his defeat at Sellasia in 222. In 225, Cleomenes III seized the city of Argos, thanks to the connivance...
men in the Macedonian fashion as phalangites". However, the defeat at Sellasia in 222 BC and the attendant great loss of manpower forced a reliance on...
Hansen 1971, pp. 34–36. Hansen 1971, pp. 36–43. Green, P., "The Road to Sellasia". Alexander to Actium, pp. 264-265 Hansen 1971, pp. 46–50. Kosmetatou 2003...
League Spartan Victory 226 BC Battle of Dyme Sparta Achaean League Spartan Victory 222 BC Battle of Sellasia Sparta Achaean League Macedon Spartan Defeat...
restored by the Macedonian King Antigonus III Doson after the Battle of Sellasia in 222 BCE. Although Sparta fell under Roman rule in 146 BCE, the position...
Herodotus' manuscript has often been corrected to "Sellasia", which was a Perioecic city north of Sparta. Sellasia was still too close to Sparta, and Cleomenes...
229/228 BC 222 BC Battle of Ladoceia 227 BC Battle of Dyme 226 BC Battle of Sellasia 222 BC Lyttian War 221/220 BC 219 BC Social War 220 BC 217 BC Second Punic...
better equipped Macedonian army, were so overwhelmed in the Battle of Sellasia (222 BC) that Cleomenes only managed to escape with a few horsemen, and...
campaigned against Cleomenes in 224-22 BC. This culminated with the Battle of Sellasia in 222 BC, in which Cleomenes was defeated by an allied army, mainly anchored...
other ancient authors. The ancient Pellana was more likely near the modern Sellasia. According to archaeologist Theodore Spyropoulos, Pellana was the Mycenaean...
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