Sparta

Type Object Region Peloponnese Time c. -900–1

Sparta (Lacedaemon) was the capital of a Greek city-state in the southern Peloponnese, with a distinctive social structure built on dual kingship, ci…

Timeline

c. -900–-600Sparta · LaconiaDorian settlers founded Sparta in the Eurotas valley and gradually conquered neighboring areas to form the Lacedaemonian league, establishing the foundations of the city-state on a model of helot labor and citizens devoted to military service.
c. -550–-371Sparta · LaconiaSparta led the Peloponnesian League, fought the Persians at battles such as Thermopylae and Plataea, and later fought and won the Peloponnesian War against Athens, becoming the military hegemon of mainland Greece.
c. -371–1Sparta · LaconiaAfter the defeat at Leuctra Sparta's hegemony collapsed; the city-state was marginalized in the struggles among the Hellenistic kingdoms and became an ordinary town after the Roman conquest, but the ruins of the ancient city and the memory of its military tradition endured.

Sources

The Spartans — Paul Cartledge (2004)
Sparta — Encyclopaedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/place/Sparta