Lysimachia
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For a place with this name, see Lysimachia (Aetolia), Greece
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Lysimachia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Myrsinaceae.
A city by this name was also built at the neck of the Crimean peninsula in 309 BC by a successor to Alexander the Great named Lysimachus. After his death in 281 BC Lysimachus was buried here in magnificent tomb. In the same year Seleucus I Nicator was killed in the city by Ptolemy Keraunos. In 277 BC near Lysimachia the Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas defeated the Celtic invasion. The same year an earthquake destroyed Lysimachia.