Ancient league of Greek city-states in southern Italy
This article is about a league of Greek city-states in southern Italy. For the Greek colonisation of the region, see Greek colonisation.
Ancient Greek colonies and their dialect groupings in Magna Graecia
The Italiote League of city-states was founded in about 430BC[1] by several Greek Achaean colonies in southern Italy.[2]
This region of Italiotes (Italian Greek-speakers) was part of what was later called Magna Graecia by the Romans.
^Polybius 2.38-29
^Fronda MP. The Italiote League and southern Italy. In: Beck H, Funke P, eds. Federalism in Greek Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2015:386-402. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139030953.023
The ItalioteLeague of city-states was founded in about 430 BC by several Greek Achaean colonies in southern Italy. This region of Italiotes (Italian Greek-speakers)...
The Italiotes (Greek: Ἰταλιῶται, Italiōtai) were the pre-Roman Greek-speaking inhabitants of the Italian Peninsula, between Naples and Calabria.[citation...
between the forces of Dionysius I of Syracuse and the armies of the ItalioteLeague. Dionysius triumphed in the battle and was then able to extend his...
of at least a third of it. He carried out an expedition against the ItalioteLeague in 387 BC in southern Italy. In one campaign, in which he was joined...
Croton then experienced a period of decline. Around this time the Italioteleague was founded to defend itself from the expansionist aims of Syracuse...
ISBN 978-1-85285-374-7. Robert J. Buck (1994). Boiotia and the Boiotian League, 432-371 B.C. University of Alberta. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-88864-253-0. Peter...
in Attica, Greece, leading the Delian League in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta and the Peloponnesian League. Athenian democracy was established in...
of Locri in about 406 BC. When in 389 BC Dionysius I defeated the ItalioteLeague at the Battle of the Elleporus, he donated the lands of Kaulon on the...
formed an alliance called the ItalioteLeague in 393 BC. Wonder thinks Sybaris on the Traeis probably was a member of the league together with Croton, Caulonia...
Rhegium. Dionysius invaded the mainland crushing Rhegium’s ally, the ItalioteLeague of Taurentum, at the Battle of the Elleporus. He then besieged, captured...
century BC, before power shifted to Thebes and the Boeotian League and finally to the League of Corinth led by Macedon. This period was shaped by the Greco-Persian...
coalition is known as the Peloponnesian League. However, unlike the Hellenic League and the Delian League, this league was not a response to any external threat...
Mylae is annexed by Syracuse 393 Lipari is annexed by Syracuse 393 ItalioteLeague is formed by Sybaris on the Traeis, Croton, Caulonia, Thurii, Rhegium...
Includes confederations of confederations. The Ancient Greeks formed many Leagues which often acted as confederations and alliances usually to combat a common...
probably reconstructed during 454 BC, since the treasury of the Delian League was transferred in its opisthodomos. The temple may have been burnt down...
sanctuary through the period of Classical Greek civilization (see Delian League). The chronology of Cycladic civilization is divided into three major sequences:...
York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-78800-0. Wonder, John W. (2012). "The ItalioteLeague: South Italian Alliances of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC". Classical...
War. Athens regained some of its naval power after the Second Athenian League was rebuilt; however, it never fully recovered as its rivals were much stronger...
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