Ancient Greek City States Map
The most important were the following.
Ancient greek city states map. Ancient greeks by city state 54 c a achaean city states 16 p aetolian city states 1 p arcadian city states 36 p ancient argos 3 c 6 p ancient athens 12 c 31 p b boeotian city states 1 c 10 p c ancient corinth 5 c 12 p cretan city states 39 p d dorian city states 4 p g greek city state federations 2 c 17 p m mycenae 1 c 16 p p phocian city states 2 p s sparta 9 c 27 p t thessalian city states 76 p troy 4 c. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the early middle ages and the byzantine time. Let s learn about a few others. There grew to be over 1 000 city states in ancient greece but the main poleis were athína athens spárti sparta kórinthos corinth thíva thebes siracusa syracuse égina aegina ródos rhodes árgos erétria and elis.
Theseus and the minotaur theseus travels from athens to crete. The greek city states of athens sparta argos corinth and megara. Learn how to create your own. Note that there were a great many greek cities in the ancient world.
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In this list a city is defined as a single population center. By attic and ionian greekcolonists. Descriptions of six city states in ancient greece. Two greek city states systems of rule athens direct democracy elected officials 10 generals stragegos magistrates archons council of.
List of historic greek countries and regions. This map was created by a user. Others were oligarchies ruled by powerful groups. Hellás was a civilization belonging to a period of greek history from the greek dark ages of the 12th 9th centuries bc to the end of antiquity c.
Athens and sparta were the most powerful and well known ancient greek city states but they weren t the only important city states. 146 bc syracuse 734 212 bc massalia 600 49 bc kingdoms empires and countries. This ancient greek city was on the coast of ionia close to present day turkey. Also excluded from the list are larger units such as kingdoms or empires.
Athens 1796 86 bc sparta 900s 146 bc corinth 700 bc 146 bc thebes. On this map of ancient greece ephesus is a city on the east side of the aegean sea. Each city state ruled itself. Ephesus was created in the 10th century b c.
The ancient greek word for a city state was polis the city states had similar cultures and language but each city state or polis had its own separate government. A city is defined as ancient greek if at any time its population or the dominant stratum. Ancient greece map. Kingdom of mycenae c.
Some were monarchies ruled by kings. 146 bc eretria. This is a small list of ancient greek cities including colonies outside greece. During the history of ancient greece a total of 1 500 to 2 000 city states were established.
These were often referred to as poleis in the ancient world although the list is not limited to proper poleis. And athens developed the first democracy in the western world. Geography of ancient greece donn timeline of ancient greece interactive interactive find ancient greece.