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The Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC)
The Battle of Thermopylae was a pivotal battle in the Greco-Persian Wars, fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I in 480 BC. The battle took place at the narrow
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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.