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In Archaic Greece, an amphictyony (‹See Tfd›Greek: ἀμφικτυονία, a "league of neighbors"), or Amphictyonic League, was an ancient religious[1] association of tribes[2] formed before the rise of the Greek polis.
The six Dorian cities of coastal southwest Anatolia and the twelve Ionian cities to their north that formed the Ionian League after a Meliac war in the mid-7th century BC were already of considerable antiquity when the first written records emerged.
- ^ Definition. "Amphictyony". 2014. Dictionary.com. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
- ^ History.com Archived April 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine; Encarta Archived 2009-10-29 at the Wayback Machine. Archived 2009-10-31.