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This is an incomplete list of ancient Greek cities, including colonies outside Greece, and including settlements that were not sovereign poleis.Many colonies outside Greece were soon assimilated to some other language but a city is included here if at any time its population or the dominant stratum within it spoke Greek.
The city of Athens (Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athênai [a.tʰɛ̂ː.nai̯]; Modern Greek: Αθήναι, Athine [a.ˈθi.ne̞] or, more commonly and in singular, Αθήνα, Athina [a.'θi.na]) during the classical period of ancient Greece (480–323 BC) [1] was the major urban centre of the notable polis of the same name, located in Attica ...
Subsequently, the conquests of Alexander the Great widened Greek horizons and made the traditional Greek city state obsolete. Athens remained a wealthy city with a brilliant cultural life, but ceased to be a leading power. The period following the death of Alexander in 323 BC is known as Hellenistic Greece.
Although Athens is the most familiar of the democratic city-states in ancient Greece, it was not the only one, nor was it the first; multiple other city-states adopted similar democratic constitutions before Athens. [2] [3] By the late 4th century BC, as many as half of the over one thousand existing Greek cities might have been democracies. [4]
Ancient Athens (11 C, 36 P) B. Boeotian city-states (1 C, ... Pages in category "Greek city-states" The following 164 pages are in this category, out of 164 total.
19th century engraving of the Colossus of Rhodes. Ancient Greek literary sources claim that among the many deities worshipped by a typical Greek city-state (sing. polis, pl. poleis), one consistently held unique status as founding patron and protector of the polis, its citizens, governance and territories, as evidenced by the city's founding myth, and by high levels of investment in the deity ...
Duchy of Athens (1205–1458): crusader state with an ethnic Greek majority; Lordship of Argos and Nauplia (1205–1388): crusader state with an ethnic Greek majority; Lordship of Salona (1205–1410): crusader state, established after the Fourth Crusade; Duchy of the Archipelago (1207–1579): crusader state with an ethnic Greek majority ...
Thessalian city-states (1 C, 78 P) Pages in category "Cities in ancient Greece" ... List of ancient Greek cities; Ancient Pydna; Ancient Thera; Anticyra;