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Battle of Marathon PROPONTIS ACHAEMENIAN ( PERSIAN ) EMPIRE ANATOLIA MEDITERRANEAN Ther- mopylae Plataea and Mycale The cross- roads The three. Greek allies lonian rebels Xerxes army . 480 BC Xerxes fleet . 480 BC Danube Persian Empire ...
Battle of Marathon PROPONTIS ACHAEMENIAN ( PERSIAN ) EMPIRE ANATOLIA MEDITERRANEAN Ther- mopylae Plataea and Mycale The cross- roads The three. Greek allies lonian rebels Xerxes army . 480 BC Xerxes fleet . 480 BC Danube Persian Empire ...
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... Persian detachment from a deserter , engaged the main Persian fleet with some suc- cess . The Greeks intended to sail south that night and de- stroy the detachment next day , but a tremendous storm kept the Greeks at Artemisium and ...
... Persian detachment from a deserter , engaged the main Persian fleet with some suc- cess . The Greeks intended to sail south that night and de- stroy the detachment next day , but a tremendous storm kept the Greeks at Artemisium and ...
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... Persian general's tent with the psalm singers in the Emperor's . In a brilliant campaign , he manoeuvred the Persians out of Anatolia and suggested a truce to the Persian monarch . This offer Khosrow II contemptuously rejected ...
... Persian general's tent with the psalm singers in the Emperor's . In a brilliant campaign , he manoeuvred the Persians out of Anatolia and suggested a truce to the Persian monarch . This offer Khosrow II contemptuously rejected ...
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