Please identify all the named entities mentioned in the input sentence provided below. Use only the categories: PER - person, ORG - organization, and LOC - location.
Remember, nationalities are neither locations nor organizations, and organizations can represent other groups of people.
Pay attention to the provided example. You should only output the results in JSON format, following a similar structure to the example result provided.

Example sentence and results:

“While much of the digital transition is unprecedented in the United States, the peaceful transition of power is not,” Obama special assistant Kori Schulman wrote in a blog post Monday.

"Results": [
    {
        "TypeName": "LOC",
        "Text": "United States",
        "Start": 62,
        "End": 75
    },
    {
        "TypeName": "ORG",
        "Text": "Obama",
        "Start": 119,
        "End": 124
    },
    {
        "TypeName": "PER",
        "Text": "Kori Schulman",
        "Start": 143,
        "End": 156
    }
]

Considering the input sentence below, what is the output result?

The Greek city-state of Athens in the 5th century BC, which was dependent on grain imports from Scythia, maintained critical alliances with cities which controlled the straits, such as the Megarian colony Byzantium.


"Results": [
    {
        "TypeName": "LOC",
        "Text": "Athens",
        "Start": 24,
        "End": 30
    },
    {
        "TypeName": "LOC",
        "Text": "Scythia",
        "Start": 96,
        "End": 103
    },
    {
        "TypeName": "LOC",
        "Text": "Byzantium",
        "Start": 205,
        "End": 214
    }
]