Amphictyonic league
Pre-polis type of ancient Greek confederacy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Archaic Greece, an amphictyony (Greek: ἀμφικτυονία, a "league of neighbors"), or Amphictyonic League, was an ancient religious[1] association of tribes[2] formed before the rise of the Greek polis.
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The six Dorian cities of coastal southwest Anatolia and the twelve Ionian cities to their north that formed the Ionian League after a Meliac war in the mid-7th century BC were already of considerable antiquity when the first written records emerged.