Year 12 Ancient - Map of Ancient Greece

Below is a map showing the major city states (poleis) of Ancient Greece - Sparta and Athens - along with their main allies. Athens and Sparta were both at their height around 500BC, and competed for hegemony (dominance) of the area we now call Ancient Greece.

In reality, Greece was not one country, but many island- and city-states, scattered around the Eastern Mediterranean from Macedonia and Thrace in the north, to Crete in the south, to Ionia (Turkey) in the east.

Sparta's allies (in purple)were called the Peloponnesian League, as Sparta was the main state on the Peloponnese peninsula.

Athens' allies (in orange) were called the Delian League, after the island of Delos where the states agreed to help each other.

You can click on the map below to gain a larger image.