Confederation · approximate478 BCE – 404 BCE · 74 years
Athens (Delian League)
No editorial summary yet for Athens (Delian League). The border provenance and the wars recorded for this polity are what the dataset holds.
Borders & accuracy
A confederation of independent groups; member territories shifted and overlapped, so the perimeter is approximate.
- SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
- DETAILhand-traced: HBM -500 'Greek city-states' coastline clipped to Attica; Euboea and the Cyclades (minus Melos) added as League members (r15)
- POLITY TYPEconfederation
Attica bounded inland by a hand-drawn Megarid/Parnes/Kithairon line; the island polygons are HBM. Ionian and Hellespontine members lie outside the HBM Greek polygon and are not shown.
Wars of this empire40
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.
- Greco-Persian Wars499–449 BCEWorld-changing · 100K dead
- Peloponnesian War431–404 BCEWorld-changing · 100K dead
- Egyptian Revolt of Inaros460–454 BCESignificant
- First Peloponnesian War460–445 BCESignificant
- Battle of Eurymedon466 BCERegional
- Battle of Drabescus465 BCERegional
- Battle of Thasos465 BCERegional
- Battle of Oenophyta457 BCERegional
- Battle of Tanagra457 BCERegional
- Battle of Prosopitis456 BCERegional
- Battle of Salamis, Cyprus450 BCERegional
- Battle of Coronea447 BCERegional
- Battle of Potidaea432 BCERegional
- Battle of Methone431 BCERegional
- Battle of Naupactus429 BCERegional
- Battle of Patras429 BCERegional
- Battle of Spartolus429 BCERegional
- Battle of Mytilene428 BCERegional
- Battle of Olpae426 BCERegional
- Battle of Tanagra426 BCERegional
- Battle of Pylos-Sphacteria425 BCERegional
- Battle of Solygeia425 BCERegional
- Battle of Delium424 BCERegional
- Battle of Megara424 BCERegional
+ 16 more in the atlas.
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 478 BCE and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Athens (Delian League) (478 BCE – 404 BCE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/athens-delian-league · Sources & methodology