Delian League
Britishnoun
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Athens emerged as the head of the Delian League, a confederacy of cities located along the Anatolian coast and on islands in the Aegean.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
But old rivalries resumed, dividing the Greeks between the Athenian-ruled Delian League and the Spartan-led Peloponnesian League.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Immediately following the war, Sparta established oligarchies of local aristocrats in the city-states that had been democracies under the Delian League.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Each year, the members of the Delian League contributed money to build and support a large navy, meant to protect all of Greece from any further Persian interference.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
As a member of the second Delian League it was again controlled by a garrison and an archon.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various
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