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Name: Ikos

Type: Polity

Start: 849 BC

End: 336 BC

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A Greek polis in the ancient Sporades.

Establishment

  • January 849 BC: The year of foundation of the polity of Ikos is based on peer group of similar polities in the same region (Phersu Atlas assumption).

    • Chronology

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    1. Greco-Persian Wars

    Were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states.

    1.1.Wars of the Delian League

    Were a series of campaigns fought between the Delian League of Athens and her allies (and later subjects), and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia.

  • January 477 BC: Ikos joined the Delian League at its founding in 478 BC.

    • 2. Peloponnesian War

    Was an ancient Greek war fought between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies for the hegemony of the Greek world.

    2.1.Second Phase - Deceleian War

    Was the second phase of the Peloponnesian War, where Sparta allied with Persia against Athens, which capitulated and lost its empire.

  • January 403 BC: After a prolonged siege by Sparta, Athens surrendered. As a consequence Athens had to form an alliance with Sparta, the Long Walls of the city were demolished, its territory was reduced to just Attica and Salamis and the Delian-Attic league was dissolved.

    • 3. Creation of the Second Athenian League

    Creation of the Second Athenian League (a league of ancient Greece).

  • January 377 BC: Ikos enters the Second Athenian League, a maritime confederation of Aegean city-states headed by Athens.

    • 4. Social War (357-355)

    Was a war between the Second Athenian League and the allied city-states of Chios, Rhodes, Cos and Byzantion.

  • January 354 BC: Ikos left the Second Athenian League. Most of the city-states of the League became independent in 355 BC following the Social War.

    • 5. Wars of the Rise of Macedon

    Expansion of Macedonia under King Philip II.

  • January 335 BC: Ikos passed to the dominance of Macedonia the following century, following the Greek conquests of King Philip II.

    • Disestablishment

  • January 335 BC: Ikos passed to the dominance of Macedonia the following century, following the Greek conquests of King Philip II.

    • Selected Sources

  • Bleckmann, B. (2016): Der Peloponnesische Krieg, Munich (Germany), p. 107-113

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