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Greco-Persian Wars: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As Persian Wars
Date 492 BCE - 449
Location Greece
Participants Athens • Boeotian League • Delian League • ancient Greek civilization • Ionia • Persia • Scythian • Sparta • Tegea • Thespiae

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Battle of Salamis
Darius I
Map showing the extent of the Achaemenid Empire during the 6th and 5th centuries BC, shaded in light green and spanning from the eastern Mediterranean and Egypt through the Middle East to parts of Central Asia and the Indus Valley. Major regions, cities, and trade routes such as the Royal Road are labeled within the empire's boundaries.
Map of ancient Greece highlighting major cities, regions, and states, including mainland Greece, the Aegean islands, parts of Asia Minor, Sicily, and southern Italy. Key ancient cities such as Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Syracuse, and Troy are labeled, along with numbered divisions corresponding to regions like Epirus, Thessaly, Attica, and Arcadia. The map also shows surrounding seas and neighboring territories.
Battle of Marathon
Bas-relief detail of Xerxes I wearing a robe and crown, holding a flower, from the north courtyard of the treasury at Persepolis, now in the Archaeological Museum in Tehran.
Jacques-Louis David: Leonidas at Thermopylae
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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

Cyrus II
Cyrus the Great
king of Persia
Darius the Great
Darius I
king of Persia
Bas-relief detail of Xerxes I wearing a robe and crown, holding a flower, from the north courtyard of the treasury at Persepolis, now in the Archaeological Museum in Tehran.
Xerxes I
king of Persia
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Themistocles
Athenian politician and naval strategist
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Cimon
Greek statesman and general
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Cambyses II
king of Persia
Aristides The Just
Aristides The Just
Greek statesman
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Pausanias
Greek military officer
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Leotychides
king of Sparta
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Conon
Greek admiral
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Mardonius
Persian general
Jacques-Louis David: Leonidas at Thermopylae
Leonidas
king of Sparta
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Artemisia I
queen of Halicarnassus

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