Who Were the Ancestors of the Athenians and Spartans?

Ionians represented communities that used the Ionian dialect, which were located on the islands between Greece and Anatolia, that is, on the coast of Asia Minor, and which represented a historical region called Ionia.
The Greeks considered the inhabitants of Ionia to be the descendants of the colonists from the Peloponnesians who left their existence to the Doranes, that is, the descendants of the Athenians who did the same.
In a broader sense, the Ionians signified all speakers of the Ionian, Attic (language spoken in Athens) and all dialects of the present-day group of Eastern Greek.
In the 5th century BC. Dorians and Ionians were the two most important Greek tribes and whose conflict resulted in the Peloponnesian War.
The extent to which the Hellenes at that time identified themselves as "Ionian" and "Dorian" was the subject of dispute.

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