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Socrates belonged to this tribe. [10] [11] The tribe was in possession of the prytany in the Council, at the time of the events concerning the ten generals active for Athens' navy in the battle of Arginusae. [11] [12] [13] Aristeides was in command of this tribe's contingent during the Battle of Marathon. [14]
In the spring of 200 BC Tribe XIV. Attalis, named after Attalus I, was created following the same scheme used for the creation of the Egyptian Phyle: each tribe contributed a deme and a new deme, Apollonieis, was created in honour of Apollonis, wife of Attalus I of Pergamum. As a consequence there were again 12 tribes and 600 members of the Boule.
The main Iron Age tribes in Southern Britain. The names of the Celtic Iron Age tribes in Britain were recorded by Roman and Greek historians and geographers, especially Ptolemy. Information from the distribution of Celtic coins has also shed light on the extents of the territories of the various groups that occupied the island.
Map of ancient Attica. Trittyes belonging to the phyle of Acamantis are numbered "5" and shaded dark grey.. Acamantis (Greek: Ακαμαντίς, romanized: Akamantis) was one of the phylai (tribes) of classical Athens, created during the reforms of Cleisthenes. [1]
During the same period, Belgic tribes from the Gallic-Germanic borderlands settled in southern Britain. Caesar asserts the Belgae had first crossed the channel as raiders, only later establishing themselves on the island. [27] 122 AD, the Romans fortified the northern border with Hadrian's Wall, which spanned what is now Northern England.
Tribes of ancient Scotland (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Tribes of ancient Britain" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
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Attica after Cleisthenes' reforms with the ten "tribes", thirty "trittyes", and the demes. Phyle (Greek: φυλή, romanized: phulē, lit. ' tribe, clan '; pl. phylai, φυλαί; derived from Greek φύεσθαι, phyesthai lit. ' to descend, to originate ') is an ancient Greek term for tribe or clan. [1]