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Delian League: the Athenian alliance, founded after the Persian Wars as a military organization directed against the Achaemenid Empire, but converted by the Athenian politician Pericles into an Athenian empire. ... The Spartans launched the Peloponnesian War (431-404) to force the Athenians to give up the Delian League.
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Delian League - Formation of the Delian League after the Battle of Salamis in the Persian War and the importance of the Delian League at the start of the Peloponnesian War. ... For ten years, the Delian League fought to rid Thrace and the Aegean of Persian strongholds and piracy. Athens, which continued to demand...
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Led by Athens, several ancient Greek city-states joined to gether to form the Delian league. ... Definition: Several Ionian cities joined together in the Delian League for mutual protection against the Persians. They placed Athens at the head (as hegemon) because of her naval supremacy.
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thus was born the Delian League. This new league had several purposes besides defense; one of these was to wage a military campaign against the Persians to free those Greek cities that were still under the control of the Persians.
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www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/DELIAN.HTM
www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/DELIAN.HTM
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DELIAN LEAGUE, or CONFEDERACY OF DELOS-the name given to a confederation of Greek states under the leadership of Athens, with its headquarters at Delos, founded in 478 B.C. shortly after the final repulse of the expedition of the Persians under Xerxes I. This confederacy, which after many modifications and vicissitudes...
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www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/eb11-delianleague.html
www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/eb11-delianleague.html
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The Delian League was an association of fifth-century BC Greek city-states (approximately 150)[1] under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting Persia after the Greek victory in ... ... The first action of the Delian League, under the command of Cimon, was the capture of Eion,
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www.lycos.com/info/delian-league.html
www.lycos.com/info/delian-league.html
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At its height the Delian League numbered some two hundred members which met annually on Delos. Athens was its undisputed leader and gradually used the alliance as a springboard for its own imperial ambitions.
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Organization of island city-states and Asia Minor colonies formed after the Persian Wars to protect against future Persian invasions. Headquarters was in Delos, an island colony in the Aegean Sea. ... Elsewhere on the Web: The Delian League in Detail; Read all about this getting together of city-states plunged the Greek...
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