The Battle of Thermopylae was fought in 480 BC between the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Xerxes and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta under Leonidas I, as part of the second Persian invasion of Greece. Lasting over three days, around 7,000 Greeks, including about 300 Spartans, held off a much larger Persian army before being outflanked by a mountain path revealed by the local resident Ephialtes, ending in a Persian victory and the deaths of Leonidas and his remaining rearguard. 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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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.
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one of the most prominent battles of both the second Persian invasion of Greece and the wider Greco-Persian Wars
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Around the start of the invasion, a Greek force of approximately 7,000 men - including an estimated 300 Spartans - led by Leonidas marched north to block the pass of Thermopylae. Ancient authors vastly inflated the size of the Persian army, with estimates in the millions, but modern scholars estimate it at between 120,000 and 300,000 soldiers.
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The engagement occurred simultaneously with the naval Battle of Artemisium: between July and September during 480 BC.
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Thermopylae, Greece
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Persian victory
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