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In the Archaic period of Greek history, an amphictyony (Greek: ἀμφικτυονία), a "league of neighbors", or Amphictyonic League was an ancient religious association of Greek tribes formed in the dim past, before the rise of the Greek polis. The six Dorian cities of coastal southwest Asia Minor, or the twelve Ionian cities to the north, a dodecapolis forming an Ionian League emerging in the aftermath of a dimly-remembered "Meliac war" in the mid-7th century BC, were already of considerable antiquity when the first written records emerge.
A Delian amphictyony, of polities under the aegis of Apollo's shrine at Delos, was apparently well-established in the 7th century, as the  Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo of that approximate date lists them, those cities and islands that trembled and refused to offer themselves for the birthplace of Apollo when pregnant Leto went to each in turn; the Homeric hymn presents an aition, or founding myth, for the cult of Apollo on Delos. The joint Ionian festival celebrated there was the Delia.  A Delian amphictyony was recreated in the 4th century, as an instrument of Athenian hegemony.