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The site of Protohistoric Eretria (1100-750/700 BC) has been sought in the wider environs of the modern town and some scholars have identified it with Lefkandi. In the late 8th century BC, after their success in the war against the Chalcidians for sovereignty over the Lelantine plain, the Eretrians settled in the area occupied by the present town. During the second colonization (8th-7th century BC) they founded many colonies in Southern Italy, the Chalcidice Peninsula and the Euxine Pontus. In 490 BC the city was destroyed by the Persians. In 198 BC it was sacked by the Romans and was finally destroyed during the Mithridatian Wars in 87 BC.
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