{"slug": "achaea", "label": "Achaea", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaea", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2495811", "qid": "Q2495811", "description": "regional unit in Western Greece, Greece", "entries": 13, "years": 13, "span": [-453, -150], "span_label": ["454 BCE", "151 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "peloponnese", "label": "Peloponnese", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "macedon", "label": "Macedon", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "achaean-league", "label": "Achaean League", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "ancient-greece", "label": "Ancient Greece", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "acarnania", "label": "Acarnania", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "peloponnesus", "label": "Peloponnesus", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "pericles", "label": "Pericles", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sicyon", "label": "Sicyon", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "euboea", "label": "Euboea", "shared": 2}], "items": [{"year": -453, "year_label": "454 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Pericles leads a naval expedition in the Corinthian Gulf, in which Athens defeats Achaea. He then attacks Sicyon and Acarnania, after which he unsuccessfully tries to take Oeniadea on the Corinthian Gulf, before returning to Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1302076125#Greece", "title": "454 BC", "revid": 1302076125, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -452, "year_label": "453 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Achaea, on the southern shore of the Corinthian Gulf, becomes part of what is effectively now the Athenian Empire. The Delian League had changed from an alliance into an empire clearly under the control of Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360983885#Greece", "title": "453 BC", "revid": 1360983885, "section": "Events › Italy › Greece"}}, {"year": -445, "year_label": "446 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Achaea achieves its independence from Athens, while Euboea, crucial to Athenian control of the sea and food supplies, revolts against Athens. Pericles crosses over to Euboea with his troops.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372038982#Greece", "title": "446 BC", "revid": 1372038982, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -365, "year_label": "366 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Theban leader, Epaminondas, returns to the Peloponnesus for a third time, seeking to secure the allegiance of the states of Achaea. Although no army dares to challenge him in the field, the democratic governments he establishes there are short-lived, as pro-Spartan aristocrats soon return to the cities, reestablish the oligarchies, and bind their cities ever more closely to Sparta.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300116023#Greece", "title": "366 BC", "revid": 1300116023, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -337, "year_label": "338 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Athens arranges an alliance with Euboea, Megara, Achaea, Corinth, Acarnania and some other states in the Peloponnesus. However, the most desirable ally for Athens is Thebes. Therefore, the Athenian leader, Demosthenes, goes to the Boeotian city and secures an alliance with Thebes despite the efforts of a Macedonian deputation to persuade Thebes to join with Macedonia. In return, Athens agrees to Thebes controlling Boeotia, Thebes being in command solely on land and jointly at sea, and Athens paying two thirds of the campaign's cost.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172728#Macedonia", "title": "338 BC", "revid": 1354172728, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonia"}}, {"year": -302, "year_label": "303 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius Poliorcetes invades the Peloponnese and occupies Corinth, Sicyon, and Argos in the Peloponnese, and Achaea, Elis and almost all of Arcadia join his side.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172932#Greece", "title": "303 BC", "revid": 1354172932, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -266, "year_label": "267 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Macedonia's King Antigonus II Gonatas has to deal with a rebellion by an Athenian-led coalition of Spartans (led by King Areus I of Sparta), Athenians (led by Chremonides), Arcadians and Achaeans that tries to expel the Macedonian forces located in southern Greece. The rebellion has the support of Ptolemy II of Egypt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370481835#Greece", "title": "267 BC", "revid": 1370481835, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -250, "year_label": "251 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Aratus recalls back to Sicyon those exiled by Nicocles. This leads to confusion and division within the city. Fearing that Antigonus II will exploit these divisions to attack the city, Aratus applies for the city to join the Achaean League, a league of a few small Achaean towns in the Peloponnese. Aratus then gains the financial support of the Egyptian king Ptolemy II to enable the Achaean League to defend itself against Macedonia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1125838602#Greece", "title": "251 BC", "revid": 1125838602, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -222, "year_label": "223 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The king of Macedonia, Antigonus III Doson, restores Macedonian influence in the Peloponnese for the first time in almost two decades. After signing alliances with the Achaeans, Boeotians, Thessalians and the Acarnanians, Antigonus invades the Peloponnese and drives the Spartans out of Argos, taking Orchomenus and Mantineia in the process.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1243366265#Greece", "title": "223 BC", "revid": 1243366265, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -219, "year_label": "220 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Together with fellow Illyrian, Scerdilaidas, Demetrius of Pharos attacks Illyrian cities under Roman protection and leads a piratical squadron into Greek waters. They unsuccessfully attack Pylos, an Achaean town on the Messenian coast, in the Peloponnesus of Greece.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598324#Greece", "title": "220 BC", "revid": 1360598324, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -208, "year_label": "209 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "As strategos of the Achaeans, the Greek general Philopoemen is responsible for turning the Achaean League into an aggressive military power. He builds up the League's military capability. The Achaean League's army and cavalry under Philopoemen then defeat the Aetolians on the Elean frontier.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300115697#Greece", "title": "209 BC", "revid": 1300115697, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -187, "year_label": "188 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The leader of the Achaean League, Philopoemen, enters northern Laconia with his army and a group of Spartan exiles. His army demolishes the wall that the former tyrant of Sparta, Nabis, has built around Sparta. Philopoemen then restores Spartan citizenship to the exiles and abolishes Spartan law, introducing Achaean law in its place. Sparta's role as a major power in Greece ends, while the Achaean League becomes the dominant power throughout the Peloponnese.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560521#Greece", "title": "188 BC", "revid": 1369560521, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -150, "year_label": "151 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "At Polybius' request, Scipio Aemilianus manages to gain the support of the Roman statesman Cato the Elder (whose son has married Scipio's sister Aemilia) for a proposal to release (and return to Greece) the 300 Achaean internees who are still being held without trial after being deported to Rome in 167 BC.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267837944#Roman_Republic", "title": "151 BC", "revid": 1267837944, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}]}