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Abdera was a town on the coast of Thrace near the mouth of the Nestos , and almost opposite Thasos . Its mythical foundation was attributed to Heracles His founding act was connected to the Taming Of The Horses Of King Diomedes , its historical one to a colony from Clazomenae in the 7th Century BC . But its prosperity dates from 544 BC , when the majority of the people of Teos migrated to Abdera after the Ionian Revolt to escape the Persian yoke ( Herodotus i.168); the chief coin type, a '' Griffon '', is identical with that of Teos; the rich silver coinage is noted for the beauty and variety of its reverse types. The town seems to have declined in importance after the middle of the (376 BC), Philip II Of Macedon , 350 BC; Lysimachos of Thrace' the Seleucids, the Ptolemies, and again to the Macedonians. In 170 BC the Roman armies and those of Eumenes II Of Pergamon besieged and sacked it. Abdera is a Titular See of the Roman Catholic Church in the province of Rhodope on the southern coast of Thrace, now called Bouloustra . NOTES EXTERNAL LINKS
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