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Note that there were a great number of Greek cities in the ancient world. In this list, a city is defined as a single population center. These were often referred to as poleis in the ancient world, these were autonomous city-states, although the list is not limited to poleis but includes also settlements that were not sovereign city-states.
Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, 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 other territories.
Thessalian city-states (1 C, 78 P) Pages in category "Cities in ancient Greece" The following 155 pages are in this category, out of 155 total.
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The Delian League was a confederacy of Greek city-states, numbering between 150 and 330, [ 1] founded in 478 BC [ 2] under the leadership ( hegemony) of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece. [ 3]
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During classical antiquity, the Peloponnese was at the heart of the affairs of ancient Greece, possessed some of its most powerful city-states, and was the location of some of its bloodiest battles. The major cities of Sparta, Corinth, Argos and Megalopolis were all located on the Peloponnese, and it was the homeland of the Peloponnesian League.
The third-largest-city is Patras, with a metropolitan area of approximately 250,000 inhabitants. The table below lists the largest cities in Greece , by population size, using the official census results of 1991, [ 1 ] 2001, [ 2 ] 2011 [ 3 ] and 2021.