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Q: What is the war between the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League called?
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Fall of the athenian empire?

The Athenian Empire was more commonly called the Delian League. It dissolved in 404 BC at the end of the Peloponnesian War. There is a link below.


What was a Peloponnesian league?

The Peloponnesian League is modern terminology for Sparta and its allies, which is what they called it.


Was the conflict between Athens and Sparta called the peloponnesian war?

We call it today the Peloponnesian War. It was a 27-year war between the Athenian Empire and the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.


The alliance of Greek city-states was called the?

Delian League


What was the alliance of greek city states called?

Delian League


What protective group formed by Greeks city states?

ANSWER There had been three major leagues formed by Greeks city states: The Peloponnesian League under Sparta's hegemony, formed about the mid of the VI century BC to contrast the Athens's power. The first Delian-Attica league under Athens's hegemony, formed in 478-477 BC during the last phase of the Persian Wars. The second Delian-Attica League under Athens's hegemony, formed in 377 BC in opposition to the military alliance between Sparta and the Persian Empire.


What was the Spartan league called during the Peloponnesian War?

Sparta and its allies.


What does Delian League mean?

Several Ionian cities joined together in the Delian League for mutual protection against the Persians. They placed Athens at the head (as hegemon) because of her naval supremacy. This free confederation (symmachia) of autonomous cities, founded in 478 B.C., consisted of representatives, an admiral, and treasurers appointed by Athens. It was called the Delian League because its treasury was located at Delos.


What was the Confederacy of Delos?

Called today the Delian League, it was a league of eastern Greek city-states led by Athens to protect those cities from Persian rule.


What was the name of the alliance formed by Athens because of the Persian War?

It was an anti-Persian league, which in modern parlance has been called the Delian League because it started by having its treasury in the island of Delos. As Athens progressively turned this league into an empire, and the Persian threat abated with a peace treaty in 449 BCE, Athens migrated the treasury to its Acropolis, where it was more conveniently available to squander on beautifying the city and paying for half the population in its public service.


What city-states helped Athens in battle with Sparta?

About 180 city-states of Asia Minor and the Aegean islands called the Delian league, which ad been led by Athens against the Persian Empire, were converted into an empire of Athens after the Persian threat ended. Athens lived of the resources of these cities, and levied naval and land forces from them. This gave it the power to meddle in the affairs of other Greek city-states, leading to the devastating 27-year Peloponnesian War against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.


What was the war that took place between Athens and Sparta called?

The Peloponnesian War-