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Confederation of Acarnanians city-state in ancient Greece.
Establishment
January 424 BC: In 425 BC, the army of Acarnania and the Athenians of Naupatto led an expedition against the city of Anactorio and managed to conquer it following a betrayal. They expelled the Corinthians and the city was occupied by the Acarnanians.
Chronology
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Was an ancient Greek war fought between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies for the hegemony of the Greek world.
Creation of the Acarnanian League (a league of ancient Greece).
January 399 BC: Argos (Akarnania) joined the Acarnanian League when it was founded in the 5th century BC. The league was a loose confederation of Acarnanian cities.
January 399 BC: Alyzeia joined the Acarnanian League when it was founded in the 5th century BC. The league was a loose confederation of Acarnanian cities.
January 399 BC: Astakos (Akarnania) joined the Acarnanian League when it was founded in the 5th century BC. The league was a loose confederation of Acarnanian cities.
January 399 BC: Derion joined the Acarnanian League when it was founded in the 5th century BC. The league was a loose confederation of Acarnanian cities.
January 399 BC: Echinos (Akarnania) joined the Acarnanian League when it was founded in the 5th century BC. The league was a loose confederation of Acarnanian cities.
January 399 BC: Euripos joined the Acarnanian League when it was founded in the 5th century BC. The league was a loose confederation of Acarnanian cities.
January 399 BC: Koronta joined the Acarnanian League when it was founded in the 5th century BC. The league was a loose confederation of Acarnanian cities.
January 399 BC: Medion joined the Acarnanian League when it was founded in the 5th century BC. The league was a loose confederation of Acarnanian cities.
January 399 BC: Palairos joined the Acarnanian League when it was founded in the 5th century BC. The league was a loose confederation of Acarnanian cities.
January 399 BC: Paleis joined the Acarnanian League when it was founded in the 5th century BC. The league was a loose confederation of Acarnanian cities.
January 399 BC: Sollion joined the Acarnanian League when it was founded in the 5th century BC. The league was a loose confederation of Acarnanian cities.
January 399 BC: Thyrreion joined the Acarnanian League when it was founded in the 5th century BC. The league was a loose confederation of Acarnanian cities.
January 399 BC: Torybeia joined the Acarnanian League when it was founded in the 5th century BC. The league was a loose confederation of Acarnanian cities.
January 399 BC: Limnaia joined the Acarnanian League when it was founded in the 5th century BC. The league was a loose confederation of Acarnanian cities.
January 399 BC: Phara joined the Acarnanian League when it was founded in the 5th century BC. The league was a loose confederation of Acarnanian cities.
Was a conflict in ancient Greece which pitted Sparta against a coalition of city-states comprising Thebes, Athens, Corinth and Argos, backed by the Achaemenid Empire.
January 388 BC: Spartan King Agesilaus II campaigned successfully in Acarnania.
February 388 BC: End of the Spartan military campaign in Acarnania.
Were a series of conflicts that were fought between the generals of Alexander the Great, known as the Diadochi, over who would rule his empire following his death.
4.1.Third War of the Diadochi
Was a war between Macedonian Generals that saw Ptolemy, Lysimachus and Cassander fight against Antigonus.
January 313 BC: In 314 BC Cassander arrived in Acarnania and reorganized the League on a truly federal basis. The island of Leucas joined the League soon after.
Were a seris of conflicts between the Roman Republic and Antigonid Macedonia over control of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean Basin. .
5.1.First Macedonian War
Was a war fought by Rome, allied (after 211 BC) with the Aetolian League and Attalus I of Pergamon, against Philip V of Macedon, contemporaneously with the Second Punic War (218-201 BC) against Carthage. There were no decisive engagements, and the war ended in a stalemate.
January 204 BC: In the First Macedonian War (214-205 BC), Oiniadai was lost again.
5.1.1.Campaign of Laevinus in Greece
Was a Roman military campaign in Greece led by Marcus Valerius Laevinus during the first Macedonian War.
January 209 BC: The Romans conquered three cities of Acarania: Eniade, Nasos and Acarnanus, which he returned to the Aetolians.
January 204 BC: After another season of fighting, in 206 BC, the members of the Aetolian League surrendered and, without the consent of Rome, signed a separate peace on the terms imposed on them by Philip of Macedon. With no more allies in all of Greece, but having nonetheless achieved their objective of preventing Philip from helping Hannibal, the Romans were now willing to sign peace. A treaty was signed at Phoenix in 205 BC, the so-called Peace of Phoenix, thus ending the First Macedonian War.
January 269 BC: After the death of Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, in around 270 BC, the Acarnanians and Aetolians reached a peace agreement. They established the Acheloos River as their shared border.
January 216 BC: During the Social War (220-217 BC), the Acarnanians, led by their general Dorimachos, successfully regained control of Phoitia and Oiniadai from the Aetolian League.
Disestablishment
January 196 BC: In the Second Macedonian War (200-197 BC) the Acarnanians were forced to capitulate to the Roman Republic.
Selected Sources
Piganiol, A. (1989): Le conquiste dei romani, Milan (Italy), p. 237
Titus Livius: Ab Urbe Condita,XXVI, 24.15-16
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