ENGLAND'S MILITARY COLONIES IN EUROPE.; PART III. The Ionian ... these only prepared her for a further assertion of her predominance in that quarter--the taking possession of the seven Ionian ...

The Persians then made an example of several of the Ionian cities by carrying off their inhabitants to Persia to be resettled, sold as slaves, or in the case of many young men, made into eunuchs.

During the 7th and 6th centuries B.C., the Ionian Greeks, especially the city-states of Miletus and Teos, but also the Dorians of Heraclea Pontica and possibly Athens to a lesser extent, expanded from ...

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.