(Δωδεκάπολις; Dōdekápolis, ‘Twelve Town’). Name of several, not always historically verifiable, Greek leagues of towns
1. Hdt. 1,145 mentions Aegae [2], Aegira, Aegium, Bura, Dyme, Helice [1], Olenus, Patrae, Pharaea and Tritaea [2] as members of the Achaean dodekapolis, which the Achaeans are said to have taken from the Iones when they drove them out.
2. On the Aeolian dodekapolis cf. Aeoles [2].
3. According to Hdt. 1,142, in the 6th cent. BC the Ionian dodekapolis consisted of Chios, Ephesus, Erythrae, Clazomenae, Colophon, Lebedus, Miletus, M…