The Greco-Persian Wars, also called the Persian Wars, were a series of armed conflicts fought from 499 BC to 449 BC between various Greek city-states, led over time by Athens and Sparta, and the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Darius the Great and his son Xerxes I. The wars began with the Ionian Revolt of 499 BC and included the first Persian invasion of Greece, turned back at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, and a far larger second invasion in 480 BC, in which the Persian army broke through at Thermopylae and burned Athens before its fleet was destroyed at Salamis and its army routed the following year at Plataea. Further Greek campaigns over the following decades expelled Persian forces from the Aegean and Ionia, and the wars ended in a Greek victory. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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CombatantsGreek city-states (Athens, Sparta, the Peloponnesian League and the Delian League) against the Achaemenid Persian Empire 1 Classification
Conflict Type Greco-Persian Wars
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Source Wikipedia: Immortals (Achaemenid Empire)
The Achaemenid Persian Army launched the invasions of Greece under Darius I and Xerxes I that defined the Greco-Persian Wars
Themistocles led Athenian naval strategy through the Greco-Persian Wars, including the decisive victory at Salamis
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Source Wikipedia: Xiphos
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1. Wikipedia: Greco-Persian Wars
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The Greco-Persian Wars, also called the Persian Wars, were a series of armed conflicts involving various Greek city-states and the Achaemenid Empire from 499 BC to 449 BC.
Infobox: Date
499-449 BC (50 years)
Infobox: Belligerents
Greek city-states ... Achaemenid Empire
Infobox: Result
Greek victory
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The Greco-Persian Wars, also called the Persian Wars, were a series of armed conflicts involving various Greek city-states and the Achaemenid Empire from 499 BC to 449 BC.
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The Greco-Persian Wars, also called the Persian Wars, were a series of armed conflicts involving various Greek city-states and the Achaemenid Empire from 499 BC to 449 BC.
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one of the most prominent battles of both the second Persian invasion of Greece and the wider Greco-Persian Wars
Wikipedia: Battle of Marathon
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The Greek army inflicted a crushing defeat on the more numerous Persians, marking a turning point in the Greco-Persian Wars.
Wikipedia: Immortals (Achaemenid Empire)
Wikipedia: Xiphos
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The classic blade was generally about 45-60 cm (18-24 in) long, although the Spartans supposedly preferred to use blades as short as 30 cm (12 in) around the era of the Greco-Persian Wars.
Wikipedia: Dory
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The spear used by the Persian army under Darius I and Xerxes in their respective campaigns during the Greco-Persian Wars was shorter than that of their Greek opponents.
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