Brewer's: Achæan League

Achæ′an

A confederacy of the twelve towns of Achæa. It was broken up by Alexander the Great, but was again reorganised B.C. 280, and dissolved by the Romans in 147 B.C.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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