Editing Ionia (section)

===Settlement===
{{Main|First Greek colonisation#Ionian migration}}
Greek settlement of Ionia seems to have accelerated following the [[Bronze Age collapse]], but the lack of contemporary sources makes the sequence of events unclear.
[[File:Ionia, placchetta in osso di gorgone in corsa con serpenti, 575-550 ac ca.jpg|thumb|upright|Gorgone with serpent, Ionia, 575-550 BC.]]
The ancient Greeks believed that the Ionians were the descendants of [[Ion (mythology)|Ion]] (either a son or grandson of [[Hellen]], the mythical ancestor of the Greeks) and had [[Ionian migration|migrated]] from Greece to Asia Minor in mythic times.<ref name="Pausanias 7.1">Pausanias 7.1.</ref> The story is attested from the Classical period. [[Herodotus]] states that in Asia the Ionians kept the division into twelve cities that had prevailed in Ionian lands of the north Peloponnese, their former homeland, which became [[Achaea]] after they left.<ref>Herodotus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D145 1.145].</ref> However, the story of the migration is recounted most fully by the Roman-period authors [[Strabo]] and [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]].{{sfn|Mac Sweeney|2013|pp=157-73}}{{sfn|Hallmannsecker|2022|p=3, 12}} They report that the Ionians were expelled from the [[Peloponnese]] by [[Achaeans (Homer)|Achaians]], and were granted refuge in Athens by King [[Melanthus]].<ref name="Pausanias 7.1"/> Later, when Medon was selected as King of Athens, his brothers, the "sons of Codrus", led a group of Ionians and others to Asia Minor. Simultaneously, the [[Aeolians]] of [[Boeotia]] settled the coast to the north of the Ionians and the [[Dorians]] settled in [[Crete]], the [[Dodecanese]] and in [[Caria]].

According to Pausanias, the sons of Codrus were as follows:
*[[Neileus]] conquered [[Miletus]] from the [[Cretans]].<ref>Pausanias 7.2.</ref> Pausanias and most other sources present Neileus as the overall leader of the Ionians.{{sfn|Hallmannsecker|2022|p=31}}
*[[Androclus]] conquered [[Ephesus]] from the [[Leleges]] and [[Lydians]], conquered [[Samos]], and died defending [[Priene]] from [[Carians]].<ref>Pausanias 7.2.8-9.</ref> Strabo says that Androclus was the leader of the Ionians and the only legitimate son of Codrus.{{sfn|Hallmannsecker|2022|p=30}}
*[[Cyaretus]] took [[Myus]] from the [[Carians]].<ref name="Pausanias 7.2.10-11">Pausanias 7.2.10-11.</ref> 
*[[Damasichthon]] and [[Promethus]] found the descendants of [[Thersander]] of [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]] at [[Colophon (city)|Colophon]] and settled alongside them, but later Promethus killed his brother and fled to [[Naxos]].<ref>Pausanias 7.3.3.</ref>
*[[Andraemon]] conquered [[Lebedus]] from the Carians.<ref>Pausanias 7.3.5.</ref> 
*Damasus and Naoclus settled at Teos, along with Boeotians led by Geres. The city had already been settled by Ionians under Apoecus (whose name literally means "founder") and [[Minyans]] who settled under [[Athamas]].<ref>Pausanias 7.3.6.</ref> 
*[[Cleopus]] gathered a group made up of equal portions from all the Ionian cities and settled them at [[Erythrae]], where there were already Cretans, Lycians, Carians and [[Pamphylians]].<ref>Pausanias 7.3.7.</ref> 
Pausanias reports that other cities were founded or became Ionian later:
* Priene was founded by Neileus' son Aegyptus, along with Philotas, as a joint Ionian and Theban settlement.<ref name="Pausanias 7.2.10-11"/> 
*[[Clazomenae]] was founded by a group of Ionians, who received Parphorus, a descendant of Codrus from Colophon as their founder.<ref>Pausanias 7.3.8.</ref> 
*[[Phocaea]] was founded by a group of [[Phocians]] from near [[Delphi]], led by Philogenes and Damon of Athens and then received Deoetes, Periclus and Abartus, descendants of Codrus, as their kings in order to gain recognition as Ionians.<ref>Pausanias 7.3.10.</ref> 
*Procles son of Pityreus of [[Epidaurus]], a descendant of Ion, who had been expelled by [[Argos, Peloponnese#Antiquity|Argos]] conquered Samos. Under his son Leogorus, the Ephesians under Androclus conquered the island and the Samians fled to [[Samothrace]] and to [[Anaea (Asia)|Anaea]], but then reconquered Samos.<ref>Pausanias 7.4.1-3.</ref> 
*[[Chios]] was settled by Cretans under Oenopion, then by Carians and [[Abantes]] from [[Euboea]]. Oenopion's grandson Hector drove them out and received a tripod and the right to sacrifice at the [[Panionion]] from the Ionians (Pausanias expresses uncertainty about how this made them Ionian).<ref>Pausanias 7.4.8-10.</ref> 
*[[Smyrna]] had been conquered by the Aeolians, but was later conquered by the Colophonians.<ref>Pausanias 7.5.1.</ref>