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Ancient Greek colonies and their dialect groupings in Magna Graecia The Temple of Concordia, Valle dei Templi, in present-day Italy Riace Bronzes exhibited in the National Museum of Magna Graecia in Reggio Calabria Apulian pottery exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Milan, 380-370 BC A Syracusan tetradrachm (c. 415 –405 BC), sporting ...
Greek city-states began to establish colonies between 900 [19] and 800 BC; the first two were Al Mina on the Syrian coast and the Greek emporium Pithecusae at Ischia in the Bay of Naples, both established about 800 BC by Euboeans. [20] Ancient Greek colonies of the Black Sea, 8th-3rd century BC
Colonies in antiquity founded by Ancient Greeks. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. ... Pages in category "Greek colonies"
This is an incomplete list of ancient Greek cities, including colonies outside Greece, and including settlements that were not sovereign poleis.Many colonies outside Greece were soon assimilated to some other language but a city is included here if at any time its population or the dominant stratum within it spoke Greek.
This was not simply for trade, but also to found settlements. These Greek colonies were not, as Roman colonies were, dependent on their mother-city, but were independent city-states in their own right. [23] Ancient Greek colonies. Another reason was the strong economic growth with the consequent overpopulation of the motherland. [5]
Greek Crimea concerns the ancient Greek settlements on the Crimean Peninsula. Greek city-states first established colonies along the Black Sea coast of Crimea in the 7th or 6th century BC. [ 1 ] Several colonies were established in the vicinity of the Kerch Strait , then known as the Cimmerian Bosporus .
This is a list of settlements in Illyria founded by Illyrians (southern Illyrians, Dardanians, Pannonians), Liburni, Ancient Greeks and the Roman Empire.A number of cities in Illyria and later Illyricum were built on the sites or close to the sites of pre-existing Illyrian settlements, though that was not always the case.
Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilisation, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (c. 600 AD), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and communities.