In Archaic Greece, an amphictyony (), a "league of neighbors", or Amphictyonic League was an ancient religious association of Greek tribes formed in the dim past, before the rise of the various Greek "poleis". The six Dorian cities of coastal southwest Anatolia, or the twelve Ionian cities to the north, the dodecapolis forming an Ionian League emerging in the aftermath of a faintly remembered Meliac war in the mid-7th century BC, were already of considerable antiquity when the first written records emerge.