The Thessalian League (Thessalian Aeolic: Κοινὸν τοῦν Πετθαλοῦν, Koinòn toûn Petthaloûn; Attic: Κοινὸν τῶν Θετταλῶν, Koinòn tôn Thettalôn; Ionic and Koine Greek: Κοινὸν τῶν Θεσσαλῶν, Koinòn tôn Thessalôn) was a koinon or loose confederacy of feudal-like poleis and tribes in ancient Thessaly, located in the Thessalian plain in Greece. The seat of the Thessalian League was Larissa.
speaking, Thessaly refers primarily to the central plains inhabited by the Thessalians in antiquity. The plains were divided in antiquity into four administrative...
THESS-ə-lee; Greek: Θεσσαλία, romanized: Thessalía [θesaˈli.a]; ancient Thessalian: Πετθαλία, Petthalía) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative...
Third Sacred War (356–346 BC) began in 354 BC. At the request of the ThessalianLeague, Philip and his army traveled to Thessaly in order to capture Pagasae...
Philip II of Macedon was appointed Archon of the ThessalianLeague; his death induced the Thessalians to attempt to throw off Macedonian hegemony, but...
*pelag-skoi "flatland-inhabitants"; specifically "inhabitants of the Thessalian plain". He details a previous derivation, which appears in English at...
and People, the ThessalianLeague decreed to send 43,000 coffers of wheat to Rome, to be taxed from different regions under the league. The Pelasgiotes...
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...
Greece. In the defence of the Amphictyonic League of Delphi and in conjunction with the ThessalianLeague, Macedonia became a key player in the Third...
in Attica, Greece, leading the Delian League in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta and the Peloponnesian League. Athenian democracy was established in...
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son of Cersobleptes, the King of Thrace, as a hostage. Philip II's Thessalian victory earns him election as president (archon) of the ThessalianLeague....
daughter, which fell on the same day as the armies of Macedon and Thessalianleague won the significant battle of Crocus Field in Thessaly over the Phocians...
and the other states of Greece. Antigonus becomes the chief of the ThessalianLeague and is on good terms with neighbouring Illyria and Thrace. He secures...
probably reconstructed during 454 BC, since the treasury of the Delian League was transferred in its opisthodomos. The temple may have been burnt down...
Epirote League and in the Acarnanian League, whereas the leaders of the Boeotian League and the ThessalianLeague had different titles, Boeotarch and Tagus...
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Second Athenian League (378–355 BC) ThessalianLeague (374–196 BC) Arcadian League (370–c. 230 BC) Epirote League (370–168 BC) League of Corinth (338–322...
Second Athenian League (378–355 BC) ThessalianLeague (374–196 BC) Arcadian League (370–c. 230 BC) Epirote League (370–168 BC) League of Corinth (338–322...
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...
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...
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Second Athenian League (378–355 BC) ThessalianLeague (374–196 BC) Arcadian League (370–c. 230 BC) Epirote League (370–168 BC) League of Corinth (338–322...
(Ancient Greek: Πολύφρων) was a tyrant of Pherae and Tagus of the ThessalianLeague (370-369 BC). In 370 BC, Polyphron succeeded Jason of Pherae together...
west coast of Asia Minor north of Smyrna. The other two, Boeotian and Thessalian, were spoken in the northeast of the Greek mainland (in Boeotia and Thessalia)...
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