ENGLAND'S MILITARY COLONIES IN EUROPE.; PART III. The Ionian Islands. Jan. 15, 1853 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from January 15, 1853, Page 2 Buy Reprints ...

Those peoples who migrated eastward and either settled in Attica, or sailed across to the coasts of Asia Minor to found new colonies, became known as the Ionian Greeks.

A string of Ionian colonies was unified there in 438 B.C. by Spartocus I, a local chieftain who founded the Kingdom of the Bosporus.

Those peoples who migrated eastward and either settled in Attica, or sailed across to the coasts of Asia Minor to found new colonies, became known as the Ionian Greeks.