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Delian League

British

noun

an alliance of ancient Greek states formed in 478–77 _bc to fight Persia

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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

As the Delian League grew, which is to say as Athens took over control of its “allied” poleis, it increased the size of its bureaucracy accordingly.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

As the maritime head of Hellas she was chief of the naval Delian League, now formed ostensibly to carry on the war against Persia.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

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