Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these would barely qualify as towns in modern terms. Even Athens, by far the largest of all city-states, only contained ...

The Ionian League, was a confederation of twelve Ionian Greek city-states located along the coast of Asia Minor.

A final reason behind the development of city-states was the Greek aristocracy, who acted to prevent any permanent monarchies from forming. They defended the political independence of their cities ...

Not many events in history show what the culture of ancient Greece was like as well as the Panhellenic Games do.

Our civilisation has grown from small, rival communities, often cut off from each other by mountains, rivers and the sea, to create the city-states - each like a mini country, with its own capital ...

Each city-state ruled itself. They had their own governments, laws and army. Someone living in Sparta would call themselves Spartan first, and Greek second. Famously, the city-states didn’t get ...