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351: 320: 81:. While he eliminated some other rivals, by 357 BC Cersobleptes was forced to agree to a partitioning of the kingdom with Amadocus II and Berisades, who had secured Athenian support: Cersobleptes kept eastern Thrace, Amadocus II central Thrace, and Berisades western Thrace. The area under Amadocus II's control is generally identified as laying west of the river 93:
belonged to him. In 354 or 353 BC, Cersobleptes and Philip planned joint action against Amadocus and the Athenians. When this plan failed, Cersobleptes made an alliance with the Athenians, luring them away from their arrangement with Amadocus, and attacked Amadocus by himself. Now Philip intervened,
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in the late 380s or early 370s BC may refer to him rather than to his father. Soon after the murder of Cotys I in September 360 BC, his son and successor
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Vulpe 1976: 32; Tacheva 2006: 107; Topalov 1994: 137 supports the testimony of this source with evidence from the rulers' coin types.
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attacking and defeating Cersobleptes in 352 BC. About this time Amadocus disappears from the sources. He was succeeded by
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P. Delev, Thrace from the Assassination of Kotys I to Koroupedion (360-281 BCE), in Valeva et al. (eds.),
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Hammond, N. G. L.; "Philip's Actions in 347 and Early 346 B.C." in
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The Odrysian Kingdom from the Late 5th to the Mid-4th C. B.C.,
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was faced with several opponents, including Amadocus II and
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Tacheva 2006: 146–147 sees Cotys' rival as Amadocus I.
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Odrysian
Thrace
Amadocus I
Theopompus
Philip II of Macedon
Cotys I
Cersobleptes
Berisades
Hebrus
Maroneia
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Teres III
Isocrates
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Odrysian kingdom of Thrace
Cotys I
Teres III
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Ancient Thrace
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