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	Athens
		Athens led the Delian League from the beginning, though at its founding the treasury was located on the island of Delos, and each state in the league had an equal vote.
		Naxos, a member of the Delian League, attempted to secede, and was enslaved; Naxos is believed to have been forced to tear down her walls, lost her fleet, and her vote in the League.
		The Second Athenian Empire, a maritime self-defense league, was founded in 377 BC and was led by Athens; but Athens would never recover the full extent of her power, and her enemies were now far stronger and more varied.
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	Warhorse Simulations: The Epic of the Peloponnesian War
		All cities in the Athenian Empire are required to pay tribute to the government in Athens, and some are finding this tiresome in these calmer times.
		The Spartan leadership of this League is based on the invincible reputation of their elite hoplite fighting force, which has never been defeated in open battle.
		The stage is thus set for a war that spanned nearly thirty years in its entirety from first engagement in 431 BC to the eventual downfall of the Athens in 404.
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		The Athenians accordingly convened a congress of Greece at the Sanctuary of Apollo at Delos and formed a new hegemonic alliance known as the Delian League in 478 BC.
		At the congress he announced that the league and its cash contributions must continue; that the 5000 talents in League treasury would now be used to reconstruct the monuments destroyed by Persia, beginning with the temples on the Athenian acropolis.
		Athenian disturbances at Megara, Potidaea, and Corcyra (the last two colonies of Corinth) ultimately provoked the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) -- Sparta and its allies seeking to liberate the Greek world from the tyranny of Athens.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~rauhn/athenian_empire.htm (2473 words)

	Delian League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Delian League was inaugurated in 477 BC as an offensive and defensive alliance against Persia.
		Naxos, a member of the Delian League, attempted to secede, and was enslaved; Naxos is believed to have been forced to tear down her walls, lose her fleet, and her vote in the League.
		The Second Athenian Empire, a maritime self-defense league, was founded in 377 BC and was led by Athens; but Athens would never recover the full extent of her power, and her enemies were now far stronger and more varied.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Delian_League (1541 words)

	Athenian League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Athenian League was an English amateur football league in and around London.
		The league was formed in 1912 with nine clubs, but had to close down in 1914 due to the onset of World War I.
		Clubs left and joined the league at a rate of about one a year, with a number leaving to join the Isthmian League, the strongest amateur league in the London area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Athenian_League (315 words)

	Peloponnesian War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This conference was attended by Athenian representatives as well as those from the members of the league, and became the scene of a debate between the Athenians and the Corinthians.
		With the treasury and emergency reserve fund of 1,000 talents dwindling away, the Athenians were forced to demand even more tribute from her subject allies, further increasing tensions and the threat of further rebellion within the Empire.
		In the battle, the Athenians obliterated the Spartan fleet, and succeeded in re-establishing the financial basis of the Athenian empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peloponnesian_war (4432 words)

	Athens: Empire and Democracy
		The Athenians and those Greeks worried about the Persian threat, largely the Greeks of the islands in the Aegean Sea and the cities on the coast of Ionia, formed an alliance that came to be known as the Delian League, because the league's funds were stored on the island of Delos.
		But the Athenians, of course, were all from the same relatively small city (by our standards), and most in attendance would probably have been acquainted with one another.
		The Athenians did not recognize any distinction between the courts and politics: it was all part of their democratic system.
	www.siu.edu /~dfll/classics/Johnson/HTML/L16.html (2126 words)

	Athenian Empire
		This allowed the Athenians justification for having more influence in league matters because they were the ones that had placed their people in wars to ensure the safety of the League, therefore Athens should have more control in the League.
		Second, the Athenians were "first among equals." This meant that even though Athens had one vote in the League assembly like everyone else, they could sway the vote in their interest because they were the most powerful and influential of the members in the League.
		The actions of the Delian League were done to secure the establishment of the Athenian Empire where Athens was the one who directly benefited from many of the decisions and activities of the League.
	www.ualberta.ca /~mmanzano/empire.html (898 words)

	Peloponnesian War - Crystalinks
		Athens, the largest member of the league and the major Greek naval power, took the leadership of the league and appointed financial officers to oversee its treasury, which was located on the island of Delos, the League headquarters.
		The Athenian strategy was initially guided by the strategos, or general, Pericles, who advised the Athenians to avoid open battle with the far more numerous and better trained Spartan hoplites, relying instead on the fleet.
		In the battle, the Athenians obliterated the Spartan fleet, and succeeded in reestablishing the financial basis of the Athenian empire.
	www.crystalinks.com /peloponnesianwar.html (2822 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Brittanica: Delian League
		The league was, therefore, specifically a free confederation of autonomous [onian cities founded as a protection against the common danger which threatened the Aegean basin, and led by Athens in virtue of her predominant naval power as exhibited in the wae against Xerxes.
		Even on the assumption that the Athenian dicasteries were scrupulously fair in their awards, it must have been peculiarly galling to the selfrespect of the allies and inconvenient to individuals to he compelled to carry cases to Athens and Athenian juries.
		The Athenians at once invited their allies to a conference, and the Second Athenian Confederacy was formed in the archonship of Nausinicus on the basis of the famous decree of Aristoteles.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/eb11-delianleague.html (5677 words)

	The Athenian School: Programs: Sports
		Athenian encourages students to participate in athletic activities to develop the body as well as the mind.
		The fundamental purpose of Athenian Athletics is to mirror the mission and goals of the school.
		The Athenian School recognizes that striving to win is part of life; however, the way in which we win and lose during competition is also relevant.
	www.athenian.org /programs/sports.php (365 words)

	The Ryman Football League
		With the final demise of the Athenian League in 1984 the League saw itself with the highest number of clubs it had had with the ability to have a total of 88 clubs.
		The League was the first league to have sponsorship when Rothman's of Pall Mall selected the Isthmian League with a number of other leagues around the country to lead the way with sponsorship.
		The League was the first league to adopt 3 points for a win, the first to use goal difference instead of goal average and was the first league outside the Football League to become a limited company with a full time administration.
	www.isthmian.co.uk /history.asp (2674 words)

	The Delian League
		Aims of the Delian League – compensation and liberation from Persia
		hellenotamiae – treasurers of the league in Athens
		Naxos revolts from Delian League and is suppressed
	www.brynmawr.edu /classics/redmonds/H10grhist.html (470 words)

	9-AthenianEmpire
		It is important to bear in mind that the victory in the war against Persia and the Athenian tendency to attribute her own success (at Salamis) in that struggle to the democratic reforms and greater inclusion was invigorating both politically and intellectually.
		Formally the transition is marked by the decision to move the treasury of the League to Athens (from Delos).
		The structure of the league: analogous to Peloponnesian League (two bodies, the Athenian assembly and the 'allies', the latter meeting on the sacred island of Delos, hence called the 'Delian League'.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~klio/gr/09-AthEmpire.htm (1625 words)

	Athenian Empire
		Pausanias was perhaps encouraging the Helots to revolt, and the Athenians did not care to have a Spartan in command: it is no surprise that he was killed by the Spartans and history calls him a Medising traitor.
		Pericles was the son of the Alcmaeonid Agariste, and Xanthippus, the Athenian commander at Mycale.
		In 454, the treasury of the Delian league was moved to Athens.
	www.uvm.edu /~jbailly/courses/clas21/notes/athenianempire.html (1927 words)

	Athenian Empire (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Since the Athenians and other Greeks could not assume that the Persians would not come back, they decided the best defense was a good offense, and formed an alliance known as the Delian League.
		The League's main goals were to liberate the Ionian Greeks from Persian rule and to safeguard the islands in the Aegean from further Persian aggression.
		In addition to its artistic value, Athenian pottery provides an invaluable record of nearly all aspects of Greek daily life, especially ones of which we would have little evidence otherwise, such as the lives of women, working conditions and techniques of various crafts, and social (including sexual) practices.
	www.flowofhistory.com /Reading23.AthenianEmpire.htm (2134 words)

	Ancient Greece · The Golden Civilization of Europe
		This new league had several purposes besides defense; one of these was to wage a military campaign against the Persians to free those Greek cities that were still under the control of the Persians.
		Although the League was essentially democratic, they believed that the safety of the League and its objectives would be seriously compromised by states independent of the League.
		The great flowering of Athenian culture begins in the heyday years of the Delian League, as wealth and power seemed to flow to Athens as if it were the center of the world.
	www.freewebs.com /apgreece/thedelianleague.htm (669 words)

	Detail Page
		Rescinding a vote led by the Athenian politician Cleon for massacre of the entire adult male population and enslavement of the women and children, the assembly voted a lesser penalty—execution of the 1, 000 Mytileneans judged responsible for the rebellion.
		The loss of these soldiers—then confined by Athenian naval patrols around the island—was disastrous for Sparta; all of the young men belonged to the dwindling Spartan warrior class, and perhaps a third of their number were "Spartiates" (Spartiatai), members of the military elite.
		Particularly, a foolhardy Athenian invasion of Boeotia was defeated at the land battle of Delium, fought near a temple of Delian Apollo alongside the Straits of Euboea (autumn 424
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0383 (4501 words)

	From The Delian League To The Athenian Empire
		The Athenians clearly had their eyes set on natural resources in Thrace, and when they started to dispute the Thasian possession of a gold mine, the Thasians grew worried, and threatened to withdraw from the league.
		The Spartans were sufficiently concerned with Athenian expansionism (and while the Delian League acted as one unit, it was clear that the Athenians were behind this action) to sign a secret pact with the Thasians under which they would invade Attica.
		Athenian cleruchies (colonies) were set up at strategic points throughout Greece, the Mediterranean and even the Black sea, where Athens maintained a good relationship with Cimmerians as it grew more and more dependent on the import of grain from this tribe.
	www.bigissueground.com /history/ash-athenianempire.shtml (3483 words)

	Isthmian League at AllExperts
		Although the league established itself as one of the strongest leagues in the country, routinely providing the winners of the FA Amateur Cup, it was still seen as being at a lower level than the Southern League and Northern Premier League which were the top regional semi-professional leagues.
		The league began to admit professionalism in the 1970s, although it refused to participate in the formation of the Alliance Premier League in 1979.
		The Isthmian League was reduced back down to three divisions, and its boundaries were changed to remove the overlap with the Southern League.
	en.allexperts.com /e/i/is/isthmian_league.htm (644 words)

	Delian League/athenian Empire - Ancient Roman Empire Forums
		On the one hand, the mob was itching to slaughter the weaker members of the League; on the other hand, it had its best military officers arrested for any set-back, thereby undercutting any chance it had at an empire.
		The Athenians throughtout their history were ungrateful backstabbing swines that owed their security and existence to the Spartans.
		Had the Athenians behaved in a proper manner and yielded to Sparta once and for all, I think Greece living under Spartan laws would have grown into a formidable empire that would have challenged Rome itself.
	www.unrv.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=3077&mode=linear (1983 words)

	Classical Period - Politics - The First Athenian League
		Ostensibly, the League was formed in order that the Greeks might avenge the Persians for the disasters they had brought during the Median Wars.
		Athenian tax records show that they were divided into five geographical districts: Ionia, the Hellespont, Thrace, Caria and the islands.
		The cities were to be autonomous, retaining their laws, and each member was to have the same number of votes so that the decisions of the League would not be influenced only by the most powerful cities.
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	Delian League
		The Athenians did the same: their ships were partly manned by the allies, who received fair wages, spent their money at home, where the authorities obtained their share and paid tribute.
		This Athenian magistrate kept an eye on the town where he resided, controlled the payment of the tributes, was supposed to prevent insurrections, had to investigate evils, and reported them to the government at home.
		Trials involving an Athenian were to be held in Athens, the Athenians controlled the economy of the member states, represented them in negotiations with Sparta or Persia, and felt free to use the tribute for its own purposes.
	www.livius.org /de-dh/delian_league/delian_league.html (1848 words)

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		The Athenian League was suspended during the Second World War although the E's did compete in the Herts and Middx Combination for a short period.
		Enfield was a major force during the 1960's and collected the Athenian Championship in 1961-62 and it was retained in 1962-63.
		League form did not change and through the 70's Enfield continued to collect Isthmian League titles, the 75-76, 76-77 and 77-78 seasons saw them complete a second League winning hat trick of titles.
	www.zyworld.com /mwiggs/History.htm (856 words)

	Enfield and Enfield Town FC history
		With the resumption of the Athenian League in 1945 their fortunes briefly rose, but success was short lived with only a Middlesex Senior Cup Final victory at White Hart Lane to show for it.
		The Athenian League championship finally came to Southbury Road in 1962 in some style as every home game was won.
		It was then that the Isthmian League, generally regarded as the strongest amateur league in the south, increased its constitution and invited Enfield to join.
	www.tgtlsnews.20fr.com /history.htm (1098 words)

	Detail Page
		The allies' tribute, paid in Talents of Silver, was originally used to finance league naval operations, but later came to be used by the Athenians to aggrandize and fortify their own city.
		The history of the league is one of Athens' increasing arrogance and authoritarianism toward its subject allies.
		The league was based partly on the notion that Athenian-style Democracy was available to the member states, and lower- and middle-class citizens usually supported league membership.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0170 (504 words)

	Athens basketball: Devotion through the decades - News - Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL
		In the ensuing seasons, Athenian basketball continued to be victorious as such as Near East and the University Of Athens ended up with the championship medals in their trophy showcase.
		For more than a decade Christodoulou was the star player of a successful Panionios team, yet starting in the mid-1980s the once-dominant Athenian clubs laid down their arms to the supreme rulers from the north, Aris and PAOK.
		The Athenian trio of Theodoros Papaloukas, Michalis Kakiouzis and Antonis Fotsis came back in the 2006 World Champioships to help knock the favored United States from the tournament before going home with a silver medal.
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