Aetolians

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The Aetolians were an ancient Greek tribal people of central Greece who formed the influential Aetolian League, a major political and military power in the Hellenistic period.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek people
tribal people
alliedWith Macedon
Rome
Sparta
capitalOfRegion Thermon
conflictedWith Achaean League
Antigonid dynasty
Macedon
country Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece
cultOf Thermon
surface form: Apollo Thermios

Artemis
Athena
economy agriculture
pastoralism
ethnicGroup Greeks
ethnicSubgroups Apodotoi
Eurytanians
Ophioneis
eventualFate incorporation into Roman rule
formed Aetolian League
governedBy Aetolian League
surface form: Aetolian League assembly

strategos of the Aetolian League
knownFor Aetolian League
federal political organization
military power in Hellenistic Greece
language Ancient Greek
locatedIn Aetolia
central Greece
majorSanctuary Sanctuary of Apollo Thermios
mentionedBy Livy
Polybius
Strabo
neighboringPeoples Acarnanians
Locrians
Phocians
participatedIn Chremonidean War
Macedonian Wars
surface form: First Macedonian War

Lamian War
Macedonian Wars
surface form: Second Macedonian War
partOf Greeks
surface form: Greek world
politicalSystem federal league
regionCharacter mountainous
regionToday Aetolia-Acarnania
surface form: Aetolia-Acarnania (Greece)
religion ancient Greek religion
religiousCenter Thermon
reputationInSources raiders
warlike
timePeriod Classical Greece
Hellenistic period

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Fourth Sacred War involvedParty Aetolians
Aenianes neighboringPeoples Aetolians
Dodona sackedBy Aetolians