Spartans (Greek Hegemony)

History of the Spartans
The people of Sparta or Spartans are a people with a long distinct culture and history, they united the Greeks through a series of alliances, they were known for their fierce warriors, however as their new United Greece grew in size, and the Empire of the Greeks were proclaimed the Spartan war like culture began to fade into a more civilized culture, allowing for the population of Sparta to grow significantly to a whopping 987,00 at the peak of the Greek Empire in 200 AD, overtime the Empire collapsed, a new Spartan Kingdom was proclaimed, which constantly defended from the growing Slavic Empires of Bulgaria and Serbia, this long fight for survival formed a distinct culture and language which eventually became the normal tongue by 900 AD, the Spartans while related to Greeks had their own culture, as much of Greece had fallen to Christianity, the Peloponnese Peninsula held out, when finally the Slavs were pushed out of Greece after the Battle of Thessalonica in 1239 AD, Many Spartans stayed in the peninsula, the language survived and the culture did as well, in present day nearly everybody in the Peloponnese Peninsula speaks Spartan, and study Spartan cultures