The Delphic amphictyony was the most noteworthy of these local unions.

Its counterpart in Greece was not the Delphic Amphictyony, but the Boeotian or Aetolian confederacy.

Pre-eminent among all such unions was that known as the Delphic Amphictyony, or simply The Amphictyony.

The word itself indicates that the association primarily comprised neighbours, though the Delphic amphictyony came in time to include relatively distant communities (Strabo ix.