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Name: Chaldikian league

Type: Polity

Start: 432 BC

End: 348 BC

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Was a federal state that existed on the Chalcidice peninsula. It was conquered by Macedon in 348 BC.

Establishment


  • June 432 BC: In the spring of 432 BC, during the first phase of the Peloponnesian War, several cities of Chalcidice broke away from the Athenian-dominated Delian League.
  • Chronology


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    1. War between Athens and Macedon (433-431 BC)


    Was a war between Athens and the Kingdom of Macedonia that preceded the Peloponnesian War of 431-404 BC.


    2. First Olynthian War


    Was a war between Sparta and the Chalcidian League.

  • January 399 BC: The Macedonian capital of Pella fall into the hands of the Chalcidicean League's forces.
  • January 378 BC: As a result of the Olynthian War, the Chalkidiki League was dissolved by Sparta, and most of the cities of Chalkidike and the Chalkidiki League came under the sovereignty of the Macedonian king Amyntas III.

  • 3. Wars of the Rise of Macedon


    Expansion of Macedonia under King Philip II.

  • January 355 BC: Philip II handed Potidea over to the Olynthians.

  • 3.1.Third Sacred War

    Was fought between the forces of the Delphic Amphictyonic League, principally represented by Thebes, and latterly by Philip II of Macedon, and the Phocians.

    3.1.1.Olynthian War

    Was a war between the Kingdom of Macedon and the Chalkidian League.

  • June 348 BC: Philip II seems to have methodically worked his way around the 32 cities of the League, leaving Olynthos to the end. By the spring of 348 BC, the western part of Chalkidiki had been lost.
  • November 348 BC: The same fate awaited the other Chalkidian cities that had not submitted to him. Philip then incorporated Chalkidike into the Macedonian state.

  • 4. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 355 BC: Philip II handed Potidea over to the Olynthians.

  • Disestablishment


  • June 348 BC: Philip II seems to have methodically worked his way around the 32 cities of the League, leaving Olynthos to the end. By the spring of 348 BC, the western part of Chalkidiki had been lost.
  • November 348 BC: The same fate awaited the other Chalkidian cities that had not submitted to him. Philip then incorporated Chalkidike into the Macedonian state.
  • Selected Sources


  • Assumption: most of the Chalcidian cities aren't citied after the Olynthian war, so we interpret the dissolution of the League with most of the Chalcidian Peninsula falling into the sphere of influence of Macedon.
  • Buckley, T. (1996): Aspects of Greek History, 750-323 BC: A Source-based Approach, Psychology Press, p. 330
  • Xenophon. Greek History, V, 2, 13
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