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IONIAN LEAGUE

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.

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Aegean Turkey, , George E., Bean, 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.

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