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Achaeans (Achaea)
The Achaeans of the historical period were the people of Achaea, the strip of the northern Peloponnese along the southern shore of the Gulf of Corinth. Their twelve small cities shared a sanctuary of Zeus Homarios near Aegium and formed the Achaean League, which became a leading power in Greece in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE. Achaean colonists founded Sybaris and Croton in southern Italy. Homer used the same name for the Greeks in general.
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