In the southeast of the largest Greek peninsula, the Peloponnese, was once the seat of mighty Sparta. This state was located in the region of Laconia, in the picturesque valley of the river Evrot. Its official name, which was most often mentioned in international treaties, was Lacedaemonium. It was from this state that such terms as "Spartan" and "Spartan" came. Everyone has also heard about the cruel custom established in this ancient polis: to kill weak newborns in order to maintain the gene pool of their nation.
History of the emergence of
The city of Sparta, which was officially called Lacedemon (from this word also derived the name of the nome - Laconia), arose in the eleventh century B.C. After some time, the whole area in which this city-state was situated was invaded by Doric tribes. The latter, assimilating with the local Achaeans, became Spartacians in the sense known today, while the former inhabitants were turned into slaves, called Iloths.
Sparta, the most Doric of all the states that ancient Greece once knew, was situated on the west bank of the Evrotus, on the site of the modern city of the same name. Its name may be translated as "scattered. It consisted of manors and estates which were scattered throughout Laconia. And the center was a low hill, which later became known as an acropolis. Sparta originally had no walls and remained true to this principle until the second century B.C.
The Spartans called themselves so
We know about the Spartans from school, but few have guessed that the inhabitants of Sparta used to be called something else. In order to understand the question, we will have to tell a little about the political system of Hellas Self-name of Greece. The term "Hellas" is used to refer generally to the territory of the ancient Greek states. An inhabitant of Hellas is a Hellenist. .
Ancient Greece was not History of Ancient Greece. Edited by V. I. Kuzishchin. Ancient Greece was not a united state: it consisted of a multitude of polities. In a simpler way, a city-state. The best known polities are Athens and Sparta, with their own territory, power, and laws. The city that today is called Sparta was known to the ancient Greeks as Lacedemon. It got its name from the area of Laconia in the southern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. The inhabitants of Lacedemon were called Lacedemonians. This is why the shields of the warriors from Sparta had the Greek letter lambda (Λ) on them.
Spartans same local residents became with the light hand of the Romans. The name comes from the word "Spartiata. It stood for Kennel N. M. Spartans: A New History. Wiley-Blackwell. 2010. full citizens (see Myth 4) of the Lacedaemonian polis and was extended to all its inhabitants by the Romans by mistake.
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