277 BC

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Greece

• Antigonus
  Antigonus II Gonatas
  
  Antigonus II Gonatas was a powerful ruler who firmly established the Antigonid dynasty in Macedonia and acquired fame for his victory over the Gauls who had invaded the Balkans....
   crosses the Hellespont and defeats the Celt
  Celt
  
  Celts , is a modern term used to describe any of the European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic languages. The term is also used in a wider sense to describe the Modern Celts of those peoples, notably those who participate in a Celtic culture....
  s under the command of Cerethrius near Lysimachia
  Lysimachia (Thrace)
  
  Lysimachia was an important Hellenistic Greece town on the north-western extremity of the Thracian Chersonese in what is now the Turkish Thrace Turkey, not far from the bay of Melas ....
   at the neck of the Thracian Chersonese
  Thracian Chersonese
  
  The Thracian Chersonese was the ancient name of the Gallipoli peninsula, in the part of historic Thrace that is now part of modern Turkey.The peninsula runs in a south-westerly direction into the Aegean Sea, between the Hellespont and the bay of Melas ....
  . After this success, he is acknowledged by the Macedon
  Macedon
  
  Macedon or Macedonia was the name of a monarchy centred in the northernmost part of ancient Greece. The homeland of the ancient Macedonians, it was bordered by the kingdom of Epirus to the west and the region of Thrace to the east....
  ians as their king.

Sicily

• Pyrrhus
  Pyrrhus of Epirus
  
  Pyrrhus or Pyrrhos was a Greeks general of the Hellenistic civilization. He was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians, of the royal Aeacid house , and later he became King of Epirus and Macedon ....
   captures Eryx
  Eryx (Sicily)
  
  Eryx , was an ancient city and a mountain in the west of Sicily, about 10 km from Drepana , and 3 km from the sea-coast. It was located at the site of modern Erice....
  , the strongest Carthaginian
  Carthage
  
  Carthage refers both to an ancient city in present-day Tunisia, and a modern-day suburb of Tunis. The civilization that developed within the city's sphere of influence is referred to as Punic or Carthaginian....
   fortress in Sicily
  Sicily
  
  Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
  . This prompts the rest of the Carthaginian-controlled cities in Sicily to defect to Pyrrhus.

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