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They were named Ionians after Ion the son of Xuthus. Achaea was divided into 12 communities originally Ionian: [43] Pellene, Aegira, Aegae, Bura, Helice, Aegion, Rhype, Patrae, Phareae, Olenus, Dyme and Tritaeae. The most aboriginal Ionians were of Cynuria: [44]
The ancient Greeks believed that the Ionians were the descendants of Ion (either a son or grandson of Hellen, the mythical ancestor of the Greeks) and had migrated from Greece to Asia Minor in mythic times. [12] The story is attested from the Classical period.
Euboeans (West Ionians) - They lived in Euboea Island. Abantes; Euboean Diaspora. Chalcidicians, Euboean - They lived in the Peninsula of Chalcidicia (many were descendants from Euboean colonies from the cities of Chalcis and Eretria). Catanians - They lived in Catania, Magna Graecia (many were descendants from a Euboean colony from the city of ...
The collective affinity of the Ionians was first acknowledged by Aristotle who called them physiologoi (φυσιολόγοι), [3] or natural philosophers. They are sometimes referred to as cosmologists, since they studied stars and maths, gave cosmogonies and were largely physicalists who tried to explain the nature of matter.
The Ionian League (Ancient Greek: Ἴωνες, romanized: Íōnes; κοινὸν Ἰώνων, koinón Iōnōn; or κοινὴ σύνοδος Ἰώνων, koinē sýnodos Iōnōn, in Latin: commune consilium), also called the Panionic League, was a confederation formed at the end of the Meliac War in the mid-7th century BC [2] comprising twelve Ionian Greek city-states (a dodecapolis, of which ...
The Ionians were joined by the Aeolian islanders from Lesbos, and altogether they had 353 triremes. [66] According to Herodotus, the Persian commanders were concerned that they would not be able to defeat the Ionian fleet and, therefore, would not be able to take Miletus.
The Ionians founded twelve cities which remained united in one common polity, the Ionian League. The cities of the league were Miletus, Myus, Priene, Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedus, Teos, Clazomenae, Erythrae, Phocaea and the island states Chios and Samos. [5] A temple of Poseidon, in the area of Mycale, became their religious centre.
Cognate names were applied to the ancient Greeks throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, Near East and beyond such as the Sanskrit and Prakrit Yona. In Greek mythology, the eponymous forefather of the Ionians is similarly called Ion, a son of Apollo.