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Ionian League
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The Ionian League (also called the Panionic League) was a confederacy formed as early as 800 BC comprising 12 Ionian cities. These were listed by Herodotus (I.142) as
- Miletus, Myus, and Priene, all in Caria (a region in Asia Minor) and speaking the same dialect;
- Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedus, Teos, Clazomenae and Phocaea, in Lydia (also in Asia Minor), speaking another dialect;
- Chios (island) and Erythrae (Asia Minor), with a common dialect; and
- Samos (island), with its own dialect.
Later, Smyrna joined.
Delegates (theoroi) of the League gathered to celebrate the Panionia, a religious festival and games (panegyris) dedicated to Poseidon Heliconius, on the north slope of Mt. Mycale, at the sanctuary of Poseidon called the Panionium.
- Bean, George E. (1979). Aegean Turkey. London: Ernest Benn. ISBN 0-510-03200-1.
- Herodotus; Histories, A. D. Godley (translator), Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920; ISBN 0-674-99133-8. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
