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Classical era · 480 BCE

Battle of Thermopylae

The Battle of Thermopylae was fought in 480 BC at Thermopylae between the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Xerxes 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.‎

Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Thermopylae · Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
480 BCE
Where
Thermopylae
Era
Classical

Topics

Ancient Greecec. 800 BCE – 146 BCEGreece776 BCE – today

Before and after

Siege of Eretria490 BCEBattle of Salamis480 BCEShow on timeline

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