An Entity of Type: societal event, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The siege of Athens lasted through 287 BC when the city was put under siege by King Demetrius I of Macedon. Athens revolted in that year against Demetrius' rule and elected Olympiodorus as strategos. Olympiodorus raised a force among the Athenian citizens, including old men and children, and attacked the Macedonian garrison that had retreated to the fort at the Museum hill which he took with the loss of just 13 of his men.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The siege of Athens lasted through 287 BC when the city was put under siege by King Demetrius I of Macedon. Athens revolted in that year against Demetrius' rule and elected Olympiodorus as strategos. Olympiodorus raised a force among the Athenian citizens, including old men and children, and attacked the Macedonian garrison that had retreated to the fort at the Museum hill which he took with the loss of just 13 of his men. On receiving news of the revolt Demetrius gathered forces from the cities he still held and put Athens under siege. The Athenians sent the philosopher Crates to negotiate with Demetrius. In the treaty signed Demetrius received some fortresses in Attica but Athens was freed from a Macedonian garrison. (en)
dbo:combatant
  • Macedonia
  • Athens
dbo:commander
dbo:place
dbo:result
  • Athenian victory
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 38795086 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 1979 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1088278984 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:combatant
dbp:commander
dbp:conflict
  • Siege of Athens (en)
dbp:date
  • 287 (xsd:integer)
dbp:place
dbp:result
  • Athenian victory (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The siege of Athens lasted through 287 BC when the city was put under siege by King Demetrius I of Macedon. Athens revolted in that year against Demetrius' rule and elected Olympiodorus as strategos. Olympiodorus raised a force among the Athenian citizens, including old men and children, and attacked the Macedonian garrison that had retreated to the fort at the Museum hill which he took with the loss of just 13 of his men. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Siege of Athens (287 BC) (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Siege of Athens (en)
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License