Chrysondyon

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title: "Chrysondyon" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["former-populated-places-in-the-balkans", "cities-in-ancient-illyria", "illyrian-albania", "dassaretia", "lost-ancient-cities-and-towns"] description: "Ancient town in Illyria" topic_path: "geography" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysondyon" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Ancient town in Illyria ::

Chrysondyon () was an ancient town in the southern Illyrian region of Dassaretia, mentioned by Polybius in the 2nd century BC in the accounts of the Illyrian Wars and Macedonian Wars. The location of the ancient town is still unknown.

Along with Antipatrea, Gertous and Creonion, Chrysondyon was one of the Dassaretan towns (also described as castella) around which the Illyrian dynast Skerdilaidas and the Macedonian king Philip V fought in 217 BC. The settlement of Chrysondyon was evidently walled.

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1. [[Polybius]]. ''The Histories'', 5.108.2: "ῆς δὲ Δασσαρήτιδος προσηγμένον πόλεις, τὰς μὲν φόβῳ, τὰς δ’ ἐπαγγελίαις, Ἀντιπάτρειαν, Χρυσονδύωνα, Γερτοῦντα, πολλὴν δὲ καὶ τῆς συνορούσης τούτοις Μακεδονίας"
2. {{harvnb. Šašel Kos. 1997
3. {{harvnb. Mesihović. Šačić. 2015
4. {{harvnb. Cabanes. 1988
5. {{harvnb. Morton. 2017
6. It was probably situated between [[Lychnidus]] and [[Antipatrea]].{{harvnb. Hammond. 1967

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