Alliances and Leagues

Symmachia
This was an informal alliance in fighting or for defence. Not being a federation, the states retained their individual freedom. Some examples of this type of alliance were as follows:
  • Acarnanian League
  • Delian League
  • Hellenic League
  • League of Corinth
  • Peloponnesian League
  • Second Athenian League

Sympoliteia
This was a federal state in which the city-states gave up some independence. Some examples of this type of federation were as follows:
  • Achaean Confederacy
  • Aetolian Confederacy
  • Arcadian Confederacy
  • Boeotian Confederacy