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...it revolted. After a brief resistance, however, it again acknowledged the Athenian supremacy, and repelled a [[Lacedaemon]]ian attack. [[Category:Ancient Greek colonies]]

...nes, vacillated long between the [[Sparta|Lacedaemonian]] and the [[Athens|Athenian]] interests, and was at last bequeathed to the Roman Republic by [[Attalus [[Category:Ancient Greek colonies]]

...de him unpopular, and in his absence the gates were opened to the [[Athens|Athenian]] besieging army under [[Alcibiades]] ([[409 BC|409]]). ...hen rife at Byzantium and to protect the city and the neighbouring [[Greek colonies]] from Thracian attacks, he made himself tyrant of Byzantium, and, when dec

...de him unpopular, and in his absence the gates were opened to the [[Athens|Athenian]] besieging army under [[Alcibiades]] ([[409 BC|409]]). ...hen rife at Byzantium and to protect the city and the neighbouring [[Greek colonies]] from Thracian attacks, he made himself tyrant of Byzantium, and, when dec

...s]] of Elimea. Perdiccas responded by stirring up rebellion in a number of Athenian tribute cities, including [[Potidaea]]. Athens responded with force, and se ...to an alliance with King [[Sitalkes]] of [[Thrace]], after Nymphodorus, an Athenian, married Sitalkes’ sister. Nymphodorus then negotiated an agreement betwe

...that Phocaea was founded by [[Phocis prefecture|Phocians]] under [[Athens|Athenian]] leadership, on land given to them by the Aeolian Cymaeans, and that they ...h end of the [[Hellespont]] (now [[Dardanelles]]). However Phocaea's major colonies were to the west. These included [[Alalia]] in Corsica, Massalia (Marseille

...as II of Macedon|Perdiccas II]] during his expedition against the Athenian colonies of [[Thrace]] in [[424 BC]].

As a result of this defeat, Eretria turned to colonisation. She planted colonies in the northern [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]], on the coast of [[Macedon]], and als ...orinth]]. But soon the Eretrians, along with the rest of the Empire, found Athenian domination oppressive. When the Spartans defeated the Athenians at the batt

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...orces from [[Athens]] in [[478 BC]], the cities joined the [[Delian League|Athenian League]]. When the [[Peloponnesian War]] broke out in [[431 BC]], Rhodes re ...Rhodes (city)|city of Rhodes]]: its regular plan was superintended by the Athenian architect [[Hippodamus]]. However the Peloponnesian War had so weakened the

...ytime they were attacked. The Athenians, however, objected to losing their colonies, and accepted the Ionian Greeks in a league against Persia. ...in league with Athens however, forming what could only be considered an [[Athenian Empire]]. Previously beholden to Sparta, Athens started exerting an increas

.... i. 171), under whom it attained a high degree of prosperity. It sent out colonies to [[Thasos]] (Thuc. iV. 104; Strabo, 487) and [[Parium]] on the [[Hellespo ...estored the democracy (Diod. Sic. xiii. 47). Paros was included in the new Athenian confederacy of [[378 BC]], but afterwards, along with [[Chios]], it renounc

...of the western Mediterranean. [[Ephesus]], though it did not send out any colonies of importance, from an early period became a flourishing city and attained ...the school still extant are the famous archaic female statues found on the Athenian Acropolis in 1885–1887, the seated statues of Branchidae, the Nike of

...tuated at the northwestern end of the island, the summer residence of many Athenian merchants. [[Ioannis Kapodistrias]] ([[1776]] - [[1831]]) had a large buil ...turies B.C., e.g. Corinth, Chalcis, Eretria and Miletus, Aegina founded no colonies.

...a major exporter of black-figure pottery to cities around the Greek world. Athenian potters later came to dominate the market. Corinth's great temple on its an ...haion]], which connected the city to it's western colonies ('''Greek''': [[Colonies in antiquity|apoikoiai]]) and [[Magna Graecia]], while in the Saronic Gulf

...guistically, become much larger than the area of present-day Greece. Greek colonies were not politically controlled by their founding cities, although they oft ...period, huge economic development occurred in Greece and also her overseas colonies which experienced a growth in commerce and manufacturing. There also was a

...BC|411]] Andros proclaimed its freedom, and in [[408 BC|408]] withstood an Athenian attack. As a member of the second Delian League it was again controlled by

...ls in Italy (like those on the Palatine Hill in Rome) appear as "Arcadian" colonies. The character of the ancient citadel wall at [[Athens]] has given the name ...Dorian divide carried much less weight.''</ref> For example, when [[Athens|Athenian]] orator [[Demosthenes]] attacked [[Philip II of Macedon]] in the [[Philipp

...]] it practically withdrew from the war. In [[375 BC]] it again joined the Athenian alliance; two years later it was besieged by a [[Sparta|Lacedaemonian]] arm