List of ancient Greek tribes

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They were primarily divided by geographic, dialectal, political, and cultural criteria, as well as distinct traditions in mythology and religion.

Some groups were of mixed origin, forming a syncretic culture through absorption and assimilation of previous and neighboring populations into the Greek language and customs.

With the dominion of land passing on from one tribe to the other, cultural exchange through art and trade, and frequent alliances toward common goals, the ethnic character of the different tribes had become primarily political by the dawn of the Hellenistic period.

Archaic and Classical Greece after Late Bronze Age collapse and Dorian Invasion

Map 2: The Greek/Illyrian/Thracian contact zone ( Paleo-Balkan languages )
Map 3: Homeric Greece
Map 4: Greek language prehistory (2000-1000 BC), showing the complex pattern of peoples migrations and their languages and dialects
Map 5: Reconstruction of the Proto-Greek area in c. 3rd millennium BC as suggested by Vladimir I. Georgiev
Map 7: Major Greek tribes, as the ancient Greeks perceived them, based on the mythical account provided in the Catalogue of Women by pseudo-Hesiod (6th c. BC)
Map 8: Archaic Greece
Map 9: Major regions of mainland ancient Greece, and adjacent "barbarian" lands.
Map 10: Ancient Regions of Epirus and Macedon.
Map 11: Ancient Regions of West Central, North and West Greece.
Map 12: Ancient regions of Central Greece.
Map 13: Ancient Regions of Peloponnese (southern mainland Greece).
Map 14: Ancient Crete
Map 15: Ancient Macedonia