Lamia:
Lamia is a city in central Greece. The city has a continuous history since Antiquity, and is today the capital of the prefecture of Phthiotis and periphery of Central Greece (comprising 5 prefectures).
Although inhabited since the 5th millennium BC, the city was first mentioned after the earthquake of 424 BC, when it was an important Spartan military base. It was occupied by Alexander of Macedon. After Alexander's death, the Athenians and other Greeks rebelled against Macedonian overlordship. Antipatros, the regent of Macedon, took refuge behind the substantial walls of the city (Lamian War 323 BC–322 BC). The war ended with the death of the Athenian general Leosthenes, and the arrival of a 20,000-strong Macedonian army.
Lamia prospered afterwards, especially in the third century BC under Aetolian hegemony, which came to an end when Manius Acilius Glabrio sacked the city in 190 BC. Lamia became part of the modern Greek state in 1829 becoming a border city (the borders where drawn at a site known as "Taratsa" just north of Lamia).
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