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Battle of Plataea: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date 479 BCE
Location Boeotia • Greece • Plataea
Participants ancient Greek civilization • Persia
Context Greco-Persian Wars

Photos

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.
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Timeline

Battle of Marathon
Battle of Marathon
September 490 BCE
David, Jacques-Louis: Leonidas at Thermopylae
Battle of Thermopylae
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

Key People

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Pausanias
Greek military officer
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Mardonius
Persian general

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