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Also Known As Persian Wars
Date 492 BCE - 449
Location Greece
Participants Athens • Boeotian League • Delian League • ancient Greek civilization • Ionia • Persia • Scythian • Sparta • Tegea • Thespiae

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Battle of Salamis
Darius I
Achaemenian dynasty
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Battle of Marathon
Battle of Marathon
September 490 BCE
Battle of Salamis
480 BCE
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Battle of Thermopylae
480 BCE
Battle of Artemisium
480 BCE
Spartan hoplite infantry at the Battle of Plataea, 479 bce
Battle of Plataea
479 BCE

Key People

Cyrus II
Cyrus the Great
king of Persia
Xerxes I
Xerxes I
king of Persia
Darius I
Darius I
king of Persia
Themistocles
Athenian politician and naval strategist
Cimon
Greek statesman and general
Cambyses II
king of Persia
Aristides The Just
Aristides The Just
Greek statesman
Pausanias
Greek military officer
Leotychides
king of Sparta
Jacques-Louis David: Leonidas at Thermopylae
Leonidas
king of Sparta
Conon
Greek admiral
Mardonius
Persian general
Artemisia I
queen of Halicarnassus

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