League of the Messapian City-States
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From the 5th century BC onwards the Messapians, a population of Apulia (Italy), constituted an association of city-states.
Establishment
- January 399 BC: Brentesion, a greek polis on the Adriatic Coast, is founded.
- January 399 BC: From the 5th century BC onwards the Messapians seem to constitute an association of city-states with a defensive function. There is no certain proof of the existence of a dodecapoli, a political-military organization of the twelve most important Messapian centres, which originates from the Strabonian affirmation relating to the existence in the region of thirteen city-states.
Chronology
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1. Samnite Wars
Were a series of wars between the the Roman Republic and the Samnites, who lived on a stretch of the Apennine Mountains south of Rome.
1.1. Second Samnite War
Was a war between the Roman Republic and the Samnites that took place mainly in Campania and Samnium.
- January 314 BC: Conquests of Rome during the Siege of Saticula.
Disestablishment
- January 259 BC: The secular war between the Messapians and Taranto would later partly favored the Roman conquest of Taranto itself first and then of the entire Salento, which ended around 260 BC.
Selected Sources
- Hansen, M. G. / Nielsen, T. H. (2004): An inventory of archaic and classic polities, Oxford University Press, pp. 1328-1337