League of the Messapian City-States

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From the 5th century BC onwards the Messapians, a population of Apulia (Italy), constituted an association of city-states.

Establishment

January 399 BC: From the 5th century BC onwards the Messapians seem to constitute an association of city-states with a defensive function. There is no certain proof of the existence of a dodecapoli, a political-military organization of the twelve most important Messapian centres, which originates from the Strabonian affirmation relating to the existence in the region of thirteen city-states.

January 399 BC: Brentesion, a greek polis on the Adriatic Coast, is founded.

Chronology

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1. Samnite Wars

Were a series of wars between the the Roman Republic and the Samnites, who lived on a stretch of the Apennine Mountains south of Rome.

1.1.Second Samnite War

Was a war between the Roman Republic and the Samnites that took place mainly in Campania and Samnium.

January 314 BC: Conquests of Rome during the Siege of Saticula.

Disestablishment

January 259 BC: The secular war between the Messapians and Taranto would later partly favored the Roman conquest of Taranto itself first and then of the entire Salento, which ended around 260 BC.

Selected Sources

Hansen, M. G. / Nielsen, T. H. (2004): An inventory of archaic and classic polities, Oxford University Press, pp. 1328-1337

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