The Archaic Aegean

A complete map of Poleis and Tribes of the Aegean in exactly 700 bc, or the 1st year of the 20th olympiad, and 494 years after the Trojan War.
Zoom-ins and thread below.

Produced from “AN INVENTORY OF ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL POLEIS” by Hansen & Nielsen (2004), the Pleiades gazetteer, Strabos Geographica, Homers Iliad and Oddysey, Hesiod, as well as various minor sources regarding Poleis territory. The map depics the De-facto controlled territory of independant Poleis and States, as well as the territories of tribal ethnes, which can be subdivided deeper in some cases.

The early Archaic Period was one of Tyrants and Oligarchs ruling over small Poleis (City-States) competing for dominance and driven by rapid population growth and a sense of claustrophobia to colonization of the Aegean, Mediterreanean and Black Seas.
Greek overseas settlement was therefore already well under way, with Euboeans founding Pithekoussai and Kyme earlier. by the decades around 700, Syracuse, Sybaris, Kroton, Tara