Confederation · approximate550 BCE – 366 BCE · 184 years
Sparta (Peloponnesian League)
No editorial summary yet for Sparta (Peloponnesian 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 the Peloponnese minus Achaea and the Argolid (r15)
- POLITY TYPEconfederation
Peloponnese south of a hand-drawn Achaea boundary, with the Argive plain cut out (Argos never joined). Megara and Boeotia (members at times) are not included.
Wars of this empire44
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.
- Greco-Persian Wars499–449 BCEWorld-changing · 100K dead
- Peloponnesian War431–404 BCEWorld-changing · 100K dead
- Battle of Thermopylae480 BCEWorld-changing · 4.0K dead
- First Peloponnesian War460–445 BCESignificant
- Corinthian War395–387 BCESignificant
- Theban–Spartan War378–362 BCESignificant
- Battle of Sepeia494 BCERegional
- Battle of Tegea473 BCERegional
- Battle of Dipaea471 BCERegional
- Battle of Tanagra457 BCERegional
- Battle of Methone431 BCERegional
- Battle of Naupactus429 BCERegional
- Battle of Patras429 BCERegional
- Battle of Mytilene428 BCERegional
- Battle of Corcyra427 BCERegional
- Battle of Olpae426 BCERegional
- Battle of Pylos-Sphacteria425 BCERegional
- Battle of Megara424 BCERegional
- Battle of Amphipolis422 BCERegional
- Battle of Mantinea418 BCERegional
- Battle of Syracuse414 BCERegional
- Battle of Chios412 BCERegional
- Battle of Miletus412 BCERegional
- Battle of Cynossema411 BCERegional
+ 20 more in the atlas.
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 550 BCE and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Sparta (Peloponnesian League) (550 BCE – 366 BCE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/sparta-peloponnesian-league · Sources & methodology