The Ionian League, was a confederation of twelve Ionian Greek city-states located along the coast of Asia Minor.

Three years later negotiations, led by Aristides of Athens, began on the Greek island of Delos. The result was the Delian League, a sort of ancient equivalent to NATO. Few records remain of this ...

On the west bank of the Achelous are the remains of one of the oldest shipyards in antiquity, that of the ancient Greek city ...

However, the more immediate reason for the war was Athenian control of the Delian League, the vast naval alliance that allowed it to dominate the Mediterranean Sea. By 454 BC, when the League's ...