What were the combatants of the Peloponnesian War?

Answer 1

The Peloponnesian war was fought between the city states of ancient Greece with leading cities Athens and its allies vs Sparta and its allies. It lasted 27 years and Athens was defeated. Overall the total number of city states lost power and prepared the field for the Macedonian rule that followed.

Answer 2

There were no 'countries' in today's sense of the word. Greece comprised hundreds of independent city-states which from time to time banded into defensive alliances.

The Peloponnesian war was between Athens and its allies and Sparta and its allies. The city-states stretched from Sicily, through mainland Greece, to the Aegean Sea and Asia Minor.

Late in the war Persia provided financial support to the Spartan league to enable it to match the dominant Athenian fleet, resulting in Athens' defeat.

About 300 Greek city states stretching from Sicily to Asia Minor, aligned with either Athens or Sparta.

Answer 3

There were hundreds of city-states fighting in the war. One side was Athens and its empire of a couple of hundred mostly Ionian Greek cities allied to it, and the other the Peloponnesian League, an alliance of mainly Dorian Greek city-states led by Sparta.

Answer 4

Nearly 300 Greek city-states from a wide area, from Sicily to Asia Minor were embroiled in the war. They were coalitions led by Athens on one side and Sparta on the other.

Answer 5

Athens and its allies and Sparta and its allies.