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
In 477 BCE, they organized an alliance of Greek city-states known today as the Delian League, headquartered on the Aegean island of Delos.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Athenian military might allowed Pericles to treat other members of the Delian League as part of the empire.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
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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