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Aeniania (Greek: Αἰνιανία) or Ainis (Greek: Αἰνίς) was a small district to the south of Thessaly (which it was sometimes considered part of). [2] The regions of Aeniania and Oetaea were closely linked, both occupying the valley of the Spercheios river, with Aeniania occupying the lower ground to the north, and Oetaea the higher ground south of the river.
People with no land had to leave Athens and settle in colonies in the west (Sicily and Italy) and east . By the end of the 7th century and beginning of 6th century BC, land concentration occurred and most lands were held by the nobility.
John Capodistria presents two plans for the land border: Arta–Volos line and 3.5 km north of the Gulf of Arta; The Haliacmon–Metsovo–Ionian Sea line (Haliacmon–Aoös line) According to the London Protocol (1829), the land border to the north is established on the Arta–Volos line.
In 227, Cleomenes murdered five of the six Ephors (high magistrates) and resumed what Agis could not do – redistribution of land among all Spartiates capable of army service. He first handed over all his own land to the state; he was soon followed by his stepfather and his friends and the rest of the citizens.
The Greek Middle Ages are coterminous with the duration of the Byzantine Empire (330–1453). [citation needed]After 395 the Roman Empire split in two. In the East, Greeks were the predominant national group and their language was the lingua franca of the region.
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.
Greece experienced a sustained depression with the onset of the Global Financial Crisis, as real GDP per capita declined by 20% over the period 2007–2017. [25] Greece entered into the longest and largest depression for a modern middle- or high-income country. [25] By April 2010 the government realized that it would need a rescue package.
The Parthenon, in Athens, a temple to Athena. Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in ancient Greece, [1] marked by much of the eastern Aegean and northern regions of Greek culture (such as Ionia and Macedonia) gaining increased autonomy from the Persian Empire; the peak flourishing of democratic Athens; the First and Second Peloponnesian Wars; the ...