Battle of Thermopylae
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title:
Battle of Thermopylae
text:
The Battle of Thermopylae was fought in 480 BC between the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Xerxes I and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta under Leonidas I. Lasting over the course of three days, it was one of the most prominent battles of both the second Persian invasion of Greece and the wider Greco-Persian Wars. The engagement at Thermopylae occurred simultaneously with the naval Battle of Artemisium: between July and September 480 BC. The second Persian invasion under Xerxes I wa
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480 BC engagement of the Greco-Persian Wars
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae
date created:
2002-12-13T06:35:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T11:46:02Z
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