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Delian League
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Delian League

Alliance formed by the Athenians 477 BC at the request of the Ionian Greeks. Originally intended to liberate the Greeks from the Persians and with a treasury on the Aegean island of Delos, it gradually became the basis for the Athenian empire of the 5th century BC.



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