Lysimachia
(
Λυσιμαχία or
Λυσιμάχεια). An important town of Thrace, on the Gulf of Melas, and on the
isthmus connecting the Thracian Chersonesus with the mainland, founded B.C. 309 by Lysimachus,
who removed to his new city the inhabitants of the neighbouring town of Cardia.