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Battle of Pandosia

331 BCE · 4th century BCE

The Battle of Pandosia was fought in 331 BCE near the town of Pandosia in Bruttium, southern Italy. King Alexander I of Epirus, uncle of Alexander the Great, who had come to help Taras against the Italic peoples, was defeated and killed there by the Lucanians and Bruttians. His death ended his campaign of conquest in southern Italy.

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