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In An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis by Mogens Herman,ISBN0198140991,2004
Page 228,Dionysios I founded Adranon (no. 6) (Diod. 14.37.5 (r399)), probably Adria (no. 75), possibly Ankon (no. 76), certainly Issa (no. 81); cf. Stylianou (1998) ad 13.4-5 at p. 196), Lissos (no. ..."
Page 320,"... 52o-51o, and is therefore somewhat later than that known at the Padanian sites of Spina (no. 85) and Adria (no. 75). The region functioned as a commercial intermediary between Greece and Etruria, and the Celtic regions in the north ..."
Page 323,"... the face of the advancing Gauls. According to Strabo 8.6.16, Aiginetans founded a colony en ombrikois, probably archaeologically attested in Adria (no. 75). ..
Page 324,"... = Tod 200). The location of the planned colony is unknown and a matter of conjecture-somewhere in the vicinity of Adria (no. 75) and Spina (no. 85), where Athens had strong C5 trade contacts, or on the coast of Apulia in ..."
page 325,In C4f Adria was, apparently, refounded by Dionysios I (Theopomp. fr. 128; Tzetzes ad Lycophr. 631; Etym. Magn. 1854-57). According to Just. Epit. ..."
page 333,"1 greci di Adria", RivStorAnt 4:1-21. ..."
As a long-distance trading community, Aigina was not an active coloniser, but colonised Kydonia (no. 968) in 519, Adria (no. 75) c.C61, and Damastion in Illyria after 431 (Strabo 8.6.16).
In the listing at the last pages Adria is shown as founded by Aigina(Primary colony) and refounded by Syracuse(Secondary colony).