peloponnese

King Nabis of Sparta was the last remarkable king in the history of Sparta, having fought his wars and pushed his reforms in the backdrop of the first war between the Roman Republic and Macedon, after the former spectacularly defeated Carthage. He allied himself to the Roman side and against...

What if Athens and the Delian League had defeated Sparta in the Peloponnesian War, maybe through a successful Sicilian Expedition under Alcibiades? I hear that Athens, despite being domestically democratic, was not fond of rebellious provinces. The Delian League was quite centralized into...

What if the Ottomans built a new citadel, and supporting settlement, at the site of ancient Sparta upon the conquest of the Morea in the 1400s? How could this settlement develop over time and what role would it play in the development of Ottoman Greece or in the Ottoman-Venetian wars?