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Modified link of Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Reading: The Persian Wars. Oct 08, 2026
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Greco Persian Wars. Feb 10, 2026
Add new Web site: Atlantic Canada Pressbooks Network - Western Civilization - Persia and the Greek Wars. Oct 18, 2025
Add new Web site: Military History Encyclopedia on the Web - Greco-Persian Wars, 499-448 BC. Sep 05, 2025
Add new Web site: Purdue University - Collecting to the Core -- The Greco-Persian Wars (PDF). Dec 19, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Greco-Persian Wars, in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, ed. D.T. Potts, E. Harkness, J. Neelis, and R. McIntosh. John Wiley & Sons, 2021. Oct 26, 2024
Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - Titans Collide: The Graeco-Persian Wars. Sep 13, 2024
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Worlds Collide: Persians and Greeks. Jun 07, 2024
Add new Web site: CUNY Pressbooks - Birth of Europe - The Persian Wars. Jan 08, 2024
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Reading: The Persian Wars. Jun 16, 2023
Standing entry replaced by new article. Aug 04, 2021
Media added. May 08, 2020
Corrected display issue. Mar 08, 2019
Add new Web site: PBS LearningMedia - Building the Navy | The Greeks. Jan 03, 2018
Add new Web site: Military Encyclopedia on the Web - Greco-Persian Wars, 499-448 BC. Oct 23, 2017
Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Greco-Persian Wars: Xerxes' Invasion. Oct 23, 2017
Corrected display issue. Jun 28, 2017
Add new Web site: Ancient History Encyclopedia - Persian Wars. Aug 02, 2016
Cross-references added, and other changes made. May 11, 2015
Add new Web site: HistoryWorld - The Greco-Persian Wars. Jan 14, 2014
Add new Web site: Heritage History - Greco-Persian Wars. Dec 26, 2013
Add new Web site: Heritage History - Greco-Persian Wars. Dec 26, 2013
Article revised and updated. Dec 05, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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