Map illustrating the various alliances of the Peloponnesian Wars
This article is about the union of ancient Greek poleis into a league. For the federation of communities into a polis, see Synoecism. For the municipal unit in modern Greece, see Sympoliteia (municipality).
A sympoliteia (Greek: συμπολιτεία, lit. 'joint citizenship'), anglicized as sympolity, was a type of treaty for political organization in ancient Greece. By the time of the Hellenistic period, it occurred in two forms. In mainland Greece, the term was often used for a federal state consisting of individual poleis (city-states) with shared political institutions and citizenship. Examples of this are the Achaean League and the Aetolian League. The term was also used for the political merger of two or more neighboring poleis. This could eventually, but not necessarily, lead to the disappearance of one of the participating poleis. This second form was especially common in Hellenistic Asia Minor.[1]
A sympoliteia is often contrasted with an isopoliteia, a treaty which granted equal citizenship to the citizens of the participating poleis but maintained their political independence. Contemporary writers of the Hellenistic period could use the term loosely, Polybius for example used the term sympoliteia to refer to the shared citizenship granted by both treaties. In similar fashion there was also considerable overlap between the concepts of synoecism and sympoliteia.[2]
A sympoliteia (Greek: συμπολιτεία, lit. 'joint citizenship'), anglicized as sympolity, was a type of treaty for political organization in ancient Greece...
reorganization under Diocletian (r. 284–305). It was a full federation (sympoliteia) of city-states, with its own boule and ecclesia, federal laws, common...
Aetolian League, in early times. It soon became a powerful confederation (sympoliteia) and by c. 340 BC it became one of the leading military powers in ancient...
subordinate to a province. "Federation," "confederacy", and a third term, sympoliteia only describe the degree of independence, or lack of it. Different scholars...
park in Nicosia, Cyprus Alsos, Achaea, a village in the municipality of Sympoliteia in Achaea, Greece Alsos Nea Smyrni Alsos Veikou, a public park in Galatsi...
Aigio and 28 km east of Patras. It was the seat of the municipality of Sympoliteia, which is a municipal unit of the municipality Aigialeia since 2011....
the League is uncertain. It seems it was a genuinely federal state (sympoliteia), although Olynthos played the dominant role. The League had a federal...
northern Achaea, Peloponnese, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Sympoliteia. It is located 6 km northwest of Aigio and 26 km east of Patras, at about...
leaving most of the local governing to the city states, a system termed sympoliteia. In states such as the Achaean league, this also involved the admission...
inferred from epigraphic evidence. It was a polis (city-state) and was in a sympoliteia with Theangela and Kildara. Its site is unlocated. Jeremy LaBuff (2016)...
inscription survives, dated to the year 190 BCE records an agreement of sympoliteia between Hypnia and Myonia, whose clauses mention the establishment of...
the 5th century BC. It was at the time not a fully-fledged federation (sympoliteia) as elsewhere in Greece, but a loose confederation of the Acarnanian...
a polis (city-state) and a member of the Delian League. It was in a sympoliteia with Kildara and Thodosa. Its site is located near Etrim, Asiatic Turkey...
mentioning the town have been found. One of them refers to an agreement of sympoliteia signed with the bordering city of Tritaea, according to which the inhabitants...
was a town of ancient Caria. It was a polis (city-state) and was in a sympoliteia with Theangela and Thodosa. Kildara is the find-spot of one inscription...
Corinthia (Peloponnese) Nerantzies, a village in the municipality of Sympoliteia, Achaea (Western Greece) This page lists people with the surname Nerantzis...
of the war, the union of Argos and Corinth. In what the Greeks called sympoliteia, the two cities had politically merged, granting all citizens joint citizenship...
Sirra had participated in a local Pentapolis and perhaps in the earlier sympoliteia. It was the northern limit along with Daneiros of the territory granted...
from the 2nd century BCE regarding a political and religious union (sympoliteia) between Medeon and Stiris, in which both cities had the approval of...
times; they used to be separate communities that merged with Lydae via sympoliteia. Its site is located on the modern Kapıdağ Peninsula. There are extensive...
case of a larger political entity which granted isopoliteia treaties. Sympoliteia goes further, merging the governments of two or more poleis. There are...
time by İplikçioğlu. He also determined that the settlement formed a sympoliteia together with Termessos. The acropolis is on top of the hill and on its...
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