Sparta

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Coordinates:37° 4' 55.00" N, 22° 25' 25.00" E

Sparta or Lacedaemon, was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the banks of the River Eurotas in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. It emerged as a political entity around the 10th century BC, when the invading Dorians subjugated the local, non-Dorian population. From c. 650 BC it rose to become the dominant military land-power in ancient Greece.

It is referenced in the following articles Aristotle, Herakles, Heroism, Hoplites, The Iliad, Troy - History and Myth, The Odyssey and Sequels, Thermopylae, Thetis