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Cadmea

Thebes, Central Greece, Greece
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About Cadmea

The Cadmea, or Cadmeia became the castle of historic Thebes, Greece, which become named after Cadmus, the legendary founder of Thebes. The vicinity is thought to have been settled in view that at least the early Bronze Age, although the records of agreement can handiest be reliably dated from the past due Mycenaean period. In the classical and the early Hellenistic intervals, the Cadmea served a similar purpose to the Acropolis of Athens; many public buildings were situated there, and the assemblies of Thebes and the Boeotian Confederacy are thought to have met there. During the Spartan 382-379/2 BC and Macedonian occupations of Thebes, foreign garrisons were stationed at the Cadmea.

Phoebidas was the overall answerable for the unauthorized seizure of the fort of Cadmea in 382 BC, in violation of the Peace of Antalcidas in place then. Cadmea is likewise an ancient call for calamine or zinc carbonate. Combined with copper, it became used in ancient instances for the manufacturing of brass, as mentioned, for instance, by means of the Roman author, Pliny the Elder. The element, cadmium changed into, in 1817, first remoted from an impurity in calamine; subsequently, the name, cadmium. You can come here and explore this place.

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