{"slug": "megalopolis-greece", "label": "Megalopolis, Greece", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopolis%2C_Greece", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q823721", "qid": "Q823721", "description": "modern town in Arcadia, Greece", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [-370, -222], "span_label": ["371 BCE", "223 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "arcadia-ancient-region", "label": "Arcadia (ancient region)", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "achaean-league", "label": "Achaean League", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "aratus-of-sicyon", "label": "Aratus of Sicyon", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "greece", "label": "Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "crete", "label": "Crete", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "peloponnesus", "label": "Peloponnesus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-elis", "label": "Ancient Elis", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "philopoemen", "label": "Philopoemen", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cleomenes-iii", "label": "Cleomenes III", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mantinea", "label": "Mantinea", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -370, "year_label": "371 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "With the unexpected defeat of Sparta by the Thebans, the Arcadians decide to re-assert their independence. They rebuild Mantinea, form an Arcadian League and build a new federal city, Megalopolis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1282391642#Greece", "title": "371 BC", "revid": 1282391642, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -369, "year_label": "370 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "With the support of Thebes, the Arcadian capital city of Megalopolis is completed and a democratic system is set up with an Assembly of Ten Thousand and a Council of fifty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1274974189#Greece", "title": "370 BC", "revid": 1274974189, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -330, "year_label": "331 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "While Alexander is fighting in Asia, Agis III of Sparta, profiting from the Macedonian king's absence from Greece, leads some of the Greek cities in a revolt. With Persian money and 8,000 Greek mercenaries, he holds Crete against Macedonian forces. In the Peloponnesus he routs a force under the Macedonian general Coragus and, although Athens stays neutral, he is joined by Elis, Achaea (except Pellene) and Arcadia, with the exception of Megalopolis, the staunchly anti-Spartan capital of Arcadia, which Agis III's forces besiege.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210205718#Greece", "title": "331 BC", "revid": 1210205718, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -234, "year_label": "235 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Aratus of Sicyon brings Megalopolis into the Achaean League.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342603103#Greece", "title": "235 BC", "revid": 1342603103, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -233, "year_label": "234 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "After the resignation of Lydiadas, the city of Megalopolis joins the Achaean League.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1218450136#Greece", "title": "234 BC", "revid": 1218450136, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -226, "year_label": "227 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cleomenes III defeats the Achaeans under Aratus of Sicyon at Mount Lycaeum and at Ladoceia near Megalopolis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1288758207#Greece", "title": "227 BC", "revid": 1288758207, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -222, "year_label": "223 BCE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "The Spartan king Cleomenes III destroys and burns the city of Megalopolis but the inhabitants are saved by Philopoemen who leads the defence of the city until the inhabitants can escape.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1243366265#Greece", "title": "223 BC", "revid": 1243366265, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}]}