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neighbouring Spartans. The
first Messenian War
broke out—as a
result of the
murder of the
Spartan king
Teleclus by the
Messenians, it was claimed, which, in...
- Peloponnese, the
Spartan Army went to war with the
Messenians. As a
result of two decades' struggle, the
Messenian people became enslaved as
helots and made serfs...
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Messenian Wars
refers to the wars
between Messenia and
Sparta in the 8th and 7th
centuries BC as well as the 4th
century BC.
First Messenian War Second...
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Certainly conquest comprised one
aspect of helotism; thus
Messenians, who were
conquered in the
Messenian Wars of the 8th
century BC,
become synonymous in Herodotus...
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experience another such battle, the
Messenians fell back to the
heavily fortified Mount Ithome. This is when the
Messenians first sent for help from the Oracle...
- The
Messenian Gulf (Gr****: Μεσσηνιακός Κόλπος, Messiniakós Kólpos) is a sea that is part of the
Ionian Sea. The gulf is cir****scribed by the southern...
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reads that it was "dedicated by the
Messenians and
Naupaktians as a
tithe of the
spoils of
their enemies. The
Messenians and Naupaktians,
allies of the Athenians...
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Messenian Oinousses (Gr****: Μεσσηνιακές Οινούσσες, romanized: Messiniakés Inoússes) is a Gr****
island complex in the
southwest coasts of Peloponnese,...
- The
Messenian Senate (Gr****: Μεσσηνιακή Σύγκλητος) was the
first government of the Gr**** Revolution. It was the
first move
towards the
creation of the...
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Chinese state of
Zheng comes to power. 743 BC—Beginning of the
First Messenian War. 740 BC—Tiglath-Pileser III
conquers the city of
Arpad in
Syria after...
