Thirty Years' Peace

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The Thirty Years' Peace was a mid-5th century BCE agreement between Athens and Sparta intended to stabilize Greek interstate relations and delay renewed large-scale conflict between their rival alliances.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek treaty
armistice agreement
bilateral treaty
peace treaty
appliesToJurisdiction Delian League
surface form: Athenian Empire

Spartan hegemony in the Peloponnese
causeOf temporary reduction in large-scale warfare between Athens and Sparta
concludedAfter First Peloponnesian War
conflictTypePrevented large-scale interstate conflict
war between Delian League and Peloponnesian League
describedBySource History of the Peloponnesian War
surface form: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
duration approximately 15 years
effect formal recognition of existing spheres of influence
temporary delay of renewed large-scale conflict
endTime 431 BCE
followedBy Peloponnesian War
goal to formalize the balance of power between rival alliances
to prevent large-scale interstate war
to stabilize relations between Athens and Sparta
hasParties Athens
Delian League
Peloponnesian League
Sparta
historicalPeriod Classical period of ancient Greece
language Ancient Greek
locatedIn Greek world
Greek Antiquity
surface form: ancient Greece
mainSubject alliance system regulation
non-aggression between Athens and Sparta
precededBy earlier truces between Athens and Sparta
reasonForEnd Peloponnesian War
surface form: outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
relatedEvent First Peloponnesian War
Peloponnesian War
relatedTo Athenian imperial expansion
Spartan leadership of the Peloponnesian League
signatory polis of Athens
surface form: Athenian polis

Spartan polis
significantFor Greek interstate relations
history of classical Greece
startTime 445 BCE
446 BCE
stipulated binding arbitration of disputes
mutual non-interference in each other's alliances
return of certain disputed territories
temporalContext mid-5th century BCE

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Peloponnesian War treaty Thirty Years' Peace