Greece History - The Aetolian and Achaean Leagues 3

Greece History – The Aetolian and Achaean Leagues and the Republican Awakening Part 3

Perhaps this was the occasion for the expansion of the republican movement in northern Greece. When Alexander, the son of Pyrrhus, died, in Epirus the Eacid dynasty, although feeling weak it had resorted to the support of Macedonia, was overwhelmed, and, established a federative republic centered in Phoenix, Epirus allied itself with the Aetoli, while […]

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Greece History - The Aetolian and Achaean Leagues 2

Greece History – The Aetolian and Achaean Leagues and the Republican Awakening Part 2

But, despite so many disasters, the spirit of freedom was still alive in Greece. It had established itself, almost inadvertently, in the northern canton of the Peloponnese, Achaia, where the Achaean cities, starting from 281-280, had gradually organized themselves into a solid federal state, constituted on the example of that that on the other side […]

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Greece Archaeology and Ancient Arts 1

Greece Archaeology and Ancient Arts Part 1

Excavations and discoveries. – According to Insidewatch, the intense excavation activity combined with the architectural restoration and reorganization of old and new museums, as well as the numerous scientific publications of the materials, has brought decisive contributions and very often substantial revisions to the historical framework of the ancient civilizations (see also athens ; attic […]

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Greece border

Greece Name and Boundaries

Name The name given in Western languages ​​to the more strictly peninsular part of the current Balkan Peninsula derives from the denomination of Graeci, under which the Romans (like the Italics in general) knew its residents in historical times. The origin of this ethnic group is not entirely sure, some connecting it, on the basis of […]

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