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Modern Sparta is the capital of the southern Greek region of Laconia and a center for processing citrus and olives. Sparta was unique in ancient Greece for its social system and constitution, which were supposedly introduced by the semi-mythical legislator Lycurgus.
Sparta, ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern Peloponnese, southwestern Greece. The sparsity of ruins from antiquity around the modern city reflects the austerity of the military oligarchy that ruled the Spartan city-state from the 6th to the 2nd century BCE.
Sparta was a military city‑state in ancient Greece that achieved regional power after Spartan warriors won the Peloponnesian War against the rival city of Athens.
Sparta was one of the most important city-states in ancient Greece and was famous for its military prowess. The professional and well-trained Spartan hoplites with their distinctive red cloaks and long...
Broad streets full of trees, large squares, neoclassical buildings and nice hotels, scented by the olive, orange and lemon trees of the nearby valley of the Eurotas River: this is Sparta! While in Sparta, visit the Archaeological Museum of Sparta.
Today, the ruins of Sparta are on the outskirts of the city of Sparti, Laconia, Greece, and provide visitors with a fascinating insight into the personal and political lives of such a famous and ancient culture. Rising to power in the late 7th Century BC, Sparta produced the most powerful land-army of the Hellenic world.
Sparta was a city-state located in the southeastern Peloponnese region of ancient Greece. Sparta grew to rival the size of the city-states Athens and Thebes by subjugating its neighboring region of Messenia.
Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece. In the ancient past the city–state was known as Lacedaemon and the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia in south-eastern Peloponnese.
Ancient Greek civilization - Sparta, Athens, City-States: Prominent among the states that never experienced tyranny was Sparta, a fact remarked on even in antiquity.
The history of Sparta describes the history of the ancient Doric Greek city-state known as Sparta from its beginning in the legendary period to its incorporation into the Achaean League under the late Roman Republic, as Allied State, in 146 BC, a period of roughly 1000 years.