Ancient Greece Cities

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The ancient Greek Cities and colonies are spread all across the Greek island around the Black sea and Aegean Sea. The cities are separated from each other by mountain ranges or water bodies. Thus giving rise to self-governing small communities.

Primitive division of Greek cities
Ancient Greece was divided into the following regions:

1. Peloponnese the peninsula at the southern tip of Balkan Sea. It was connected to the Greek island by the Isthmus of Corinth. The Peloponnese was further divided into seven Ancient Greece cities the Achaea, Arcadia, Corinthia, Elis, Achaea, Messenia, Laconia, Argolis.
2. Central Greece- the central Greece consisted of the following ancient cities of Aeniania, Attica, Boeotia, Doris. Eubeoa, Locris, Malis, Megaris, Oetaea and Phocis.
3. Western Greece the ancient cities of Western Greece include Acarnania, Aetolia, Aparentia and Dolopia.
4. Thessaly cities like Achaea Phthiotis, Magnesia, Histiaoetis, palasgeotis, Perrhaebia, Thessaliotis fall in the Thessaly region.
5. Epirus includes the following ancient Greece cities Athamania, Chaonia, Dassaretia, Molossis, Thesprotia, Parauaea and Tymphaea.
6. Macedonia or Macedona was an ancient kingdom of Greek which included the ancient Greece city of Pelagonia.

Modern division of Greek Island:
The modern Greece or Hellas or Hellenic republic was formed in 1830 after their freedom from the Ottoman rulers. The modern civilization of Greece retains many of their ancient cities and states.

Many of the ancient Greece cities in the Peloponnese region exist along the coast of Aegean and Lonian Sea. Athens one of the most prominent ancient cities of Greece is the present capital of Greece.

In ancient Greek history the Athens and Sparta were the most powerful and advanced states among most states. They were the first ancient Greece cities to have Democratic government.
The modern Greece also has a strong Roman influence as the Romans formed the Byzantine Empire around Constantinople and ruled Greek for a very long time.

During First World War a massive population exchange took place between Greece and Turkey. The plains of Thessaly, central Macedonia and Thrace are the most the fertile land of this region contributes towards the agricultural products of the country. Thus even in modern days the history of ancient Greek cities is alive in its soil.

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