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Facts

Date September 490 BCE
Location Attica • Greece
Participants Athens • Persia • Plataea
Context Greco-Persian Wars

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Battle of Marathon
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September 490 BCE
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480 BCE
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Battle of Artemisium
480 BCE
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Battle of Salamis
480 BCE
Black and white illustration of heavily armored Spartan soldiers with shields and spears fighting in close combat at the Battle of Plataea, with fallen warriors on the ground.
Battle of Plataea
479 BCE

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Miltiades the Younger
Athenian general

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