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    played a significant role in the history of Sparta. Queen Gorgo, heiress to the throne and the wife of Leonidas I, was an influential and well-documented...
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    Greek city-states was led by Sparta to block off Thermopylae. After three days of fighting, the Spartan king Leonidas I was killed and the rest of the...
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    The history of Sparta describes the history of the ancient Doric Greek city-state known as Sparta from its beginning in the legendary period to its incorporation...
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    last stand by a Greek army led by King Leonidas I of Sparta against an Achaemenid Persian army led by Xerxes I during the Second Persian invasion of Greece...
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    181–198. "Leonidas at Thermopylae." Louvre. Accessed December 8, 2017. http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/leonidas-thermopylae. "Leonidas at Thermopylae...
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  • Leonidas, is accepted as a Spartan for his already-present muscular physique and is prepared for kinghood through brutal training. An adult Leonidas is...
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  • used interchangeably. A similar Greek name, Leonidas, means "son of a lion". Leonidas I, king of Sparta, was a famous bearer of that name. The Ancient...
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  • Ephor (category Government of Sparta)
    the movie, Leonidas is shown visiting the ephors and proposing a war strategy to them. The ephors then consult the Oracle and refuse Leonidas' plan, showing...
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    Spartathlon (category Sparta)
    kilometres (31 mi) downhill segment to the town of Sparta. The end of the race is a statue of Leonidas I, the Spartan king who died at the Battle of Thermopylae...
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  • Spartan: Total Warrior (category Cultural depictions of Leonidas I)
    the army has subdued most of the country, with only Sparta remaining. The Spartan king, Leonidas (Bill Roberts), is preparing his troops for imminent...
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    city-states, on a scale and scope never seen before. The rise of Athens and Sparta during this conflict led directly to the Peloponnesian War, which saw diversification...
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    Battle of Thermopylae, a small force of Greek warriors led by King Leonidas of Sparta resisted the much larger Persian forces, but were ultimately defeated...
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  • Agesilaus II (category Eurypontid kings of Sparta)
    360/59 BC) was king of Sparta from c. 400 to c. 360 BC. Generally considered the most important king in the history of Sparta, Agesilaus was the main...
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    Greco-Persian Wars (category Wars involving Sparta)
    Spartans considered the threat so grave that they dispatched their king Leonidas I with his personal bodyguard (the Hippeis) of 300 men. The customary elite...
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    ornate style in art and architecture, to the isolationist, military state of Sparta; and yet, all Hellenes knew which localities were Dorian and which were...
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    Jackson 13,847 13,807 +0.3% 13,459 48.54 125.7 284.4/sq mi (109.8/km2) Leonidas Township St. Joseph 1,161 1,185 −2.0% 1,239 35.51 92.0 33.4/sq mi (12.9/km2)...
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  • was announced on 29 May 2023. Sepp van den Berg had an injury and was replaced by Shurandy Sambo. Head coach: Erwin van de Looi A 25-player preliminary squad...
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  • William Stearns Davis, A Victor of Salamis: A Tale of the Days of Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles (1907) Clare Winger Harris, Persephone of Eleusis (1923)...
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    the Black. Later in his childhood, Alexander was tutored by the strict Leonidas, a relative of his mother, and by Lysimachus of Acarnania. Alexander was...
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    Constantine II of Greece (category Grand Crosses of the Order of George I)
    as well as the memoirs of Constantine's former marshal of the court, Leonidas Papagos [el], revealed that from 1975 to 1978, Constantine was involved...
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    epigrammatic poets wrote in this dialect, such as Ibycus of Rhegium and Leonidas of Tarentum. The following authors wrote in Doric, preserved in fragments:...
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    land forces led by Sparta, and importing everything needful by maintaining its powerful navy. Athens would simply outlast Sparta, whose citizens feared...
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  • Garner's Modern English Usage, that "eg" and "ie" style versus "e.g." and "i.e." style are two poles of British versus American usage are not borne out...
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  • List of Fate/Grand Order characters (category Cultural depictions of Leonidas I)
    later an ally, Leonidas is a Lancer-Class servant summoned in the grand order during A.D 0060. Known as the "King of Sparta", Leonidas is very good on...
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  • Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Layla recovers the Spear of Leonidas, from which she extracts the DNA of Leonidas' grandchildren, Alexios and Kassandra. Through their...
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    Prince of Greece (born 1967), eldest son and second child of Constantine II Leonidas Kavakos (born 1967), violinist and conductor Kyriakos Mitsotakis (born...
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    Athenians and Evagoras I became the supporters of the Achaemenids against Sparta. This new alliance also fell apart once Sparta was defeated in 394 BC...
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    Tsarouchis, while notable sculptors are Pavlos Prosalentis, Ioannis Kossos, Leonidas Drosis, Georgios Bonanos, and Yannoulis Chalepas. The architecture of ancient...
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  • 2024. Retrieved 1 July 2024. "VfB bindet Leonidas Stergiou langfristig" [VfB signs long-term contract with Leonidas Stergiou]. www.vfb.de (in German). VfB...
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  • Hector Goetinck Although registered to the official list, Bourgeois, Simons, Van Ingelgem, Lamoot, Ledent, Putmans, Versyp and Brichaut remained on standby...
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