Possible Clues:

• Greek state once displayed paintings in Bath, say
• Military state to argue against being taken over after evacuation
• Military hub of ancient Greece
• Ancient city-state in what is now Greece
• Salvation Army holds region in ancient city
• State whose dominance of southern Greece was ended by the battle of Leuctra in 371BC
• A gin's knocked back in old Greek city
• Ancient city quarter in South Africa
• Ancient capital of Laconia
• City-state that won the Peloponnesian War