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Between the Adriatic and the Greek Mainland: the Ionian Islands from Archaism to Classical times, State Structures, Colonial Implantation and Ethnogenesis.

“Entre el Adriático y el continente griego: las islas Jónicas del arcaísmo a la época clásica, estructuras estatales, implantación colonial y etnogénesis.” (ISJONAC) PID2019-105281GB-I00

The purpose of this project is to study how the Greek states of the Ionian Islands were structured and their interrelation with the territories located in the continental coasts of Northwestern Greece from Archaic to Classical times. The above territory is crucial for Greek world and the ancient Mediterranean, connecting the Gulf of Corinth with the Adriatic Sea, Sicily and the Magna Graecia, that is, the Eastern Mediterranean with the Central and
the West. It is an area of transit and contact, one of the preferential zones of Greek colonization, and a border of the Hellenicity. Its investigation helps us to understand the processes of a) emergence and development of certain state structures and their political territorial organization, b) colonial establishment and impact, c) transit of goods and ideas