Delian League
Britishnoun
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Fifteen years later, the Athenians sent their navy to the neutral island of Melos, demanding that the Melians abandon their neutral stance, join the Athenian-dominated Delian League, and pay tribute to Athens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
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
Athenian military might allowed Pericles to treat other members of the Delian League as part of the empire.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
By the middle of the century the Delian League has become the Athenian empire.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
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