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| Tango01 | 28 Apr 2016 11:23 a.m. PST |
"The Olynthian-Spartan War (382-379 BC) saw the Spartans intervene in northern Greece in an attempt to limit the power of the Chalcidian League. The Chalcidian League had been formed in around 423 BC, several years after the city of Olynthus in Chalcidice had broken away from the Athenian Empire. The League had survived an attempt to dissolve it at the time of the Peace of Nicias (421 BC). After that little is known of it until around 393, when the new king of Macdeon, Amyntas III, was threatened by an invasion from Illyria. In an attempt to preserve at least some of his kingdom, he asked Olynthus to take over some of his border lands. By the mid 380s Amyntas felt more secure, and asked Olynthus to return his border lands. Unsurprisingly they refused, and in the fighting that followed advanced further into Macedon, capturing the capital at Pella. In 382 Amyntas sent an envoy to Sparta asking for help. At about the same time ambassadors arrived from Acanthus and Apollonia, near neighbours of Olynthus, complaining that they were being forced into the League, and also asking for assistance…."
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