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Hellespontine Phrygia
Hellespontine Phrygia, or Lesser Phrygia, was a Persian satrapy (province) in northwestern Anatolia, directly southeast of the Hellespont, with its capital at Dascylium. Its first Achaemenid ruler was Mitrobates, appointed by Cyrus the Great, and from about 479 BCE the satrap Artabazus and his heirs, the hereditary Pharnacid dynasty, ruled it for most of its existence. In 334 BCE Alexander the Great gave it to his general Calas, who held the Persian title of satrap and collected the tribute once paid to Darius III. It then passed to Leonnatus and Lysimachus, joined the Seleucid Empire after the Battle of Corupedium in 281 BCE and was finally integrated into the kingdom of Bithynia.
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