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    The Battle of Thermopylae (/θərˈmɒpɪliː/ thər-MOP-i-lee; Greek: Μάχη τῶν Θερμοπυλῶν Máchē tōn Thermopylōn; Persian: نبرد ترموپیل Nâbārd-e Ṭermopīl) took...
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    Greek mythology the Hot Gates is one of the entrances to Hades. Thermopylae is the site of the Battle of Thermopylae between the Greek forces (including...
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    The Battle of Thermopylae, on 24–25 April 1941, was part of the German invasion of Greece during World War II. Following the retreat of Allied forces...
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    The Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BCE was a last stand by a Greek army led by King Leonidas I of Sparta against an Achaemenid Persian army led by Xerxes...
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  • The Battle of Thermopylae in 254 was the successful defense of the pass of Thermopylae by local Greek militia under Marianus, the Roman proconsul of Achaea...
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    The Battle of Thermopylae was fought in 279 BC between invading Gallic armies and a combined army of Greek Aetolians, Boeotians, Athenians, and Phocians...
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    The Battle of Thermopylae took place on 24 April 191 BC. It was fought as part of the Roman–Seleucid War, pitting forces of the Roman Republic led by...
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    simultaneously with the land battle at Thermopylae, in August or September 480 BC, off the coast of Euboea and was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states...
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  • The Battle of Thermopylae was a battle fought in 480 BC during the Persian Wars. Battle of Thermopylae may also refer to: Battle of Thermopylae (323 BC)...
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  • commander of the 400-man Theban contingent of the Greek army at the Battle of Thermopylae. Little was recorded about his life before or after the battle, but...
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    Polish Thermopylae is a name used to refer to several battles in Polish history. The Polish Thermopylae is a reference to the Battle of Thermopylae, where...
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    the Battle of Thermopylae was about to be fought, in 480 BCE. Thermopylae was chosen as an ideal location for waging a defensive action in view of its...
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    Artemisium. In the resulting Battle of Thermopylae, the rearguard of the Greek force was annihilated, while in the Battle of Artemisium the Greeks suffered...
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    the battle. Leonidas entered myth as a hero and the leader of the 300 Spartans who died in battle at Thermopylae. While the Greeks lost this battle, they...
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  • Ἀριστόδημος, died 479 BC) was a Spartan warrior, one of the 300 sent to the Battle of Thermopylae. Aristodemus was the only Spartan survivor, as he was...
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    Sparta (redirect from Kingdom of Sparta)
    characteristic of the Spartans. Sparta also features prominently in modern popular culture, most famously the Battle of Thermopylae (see Battle of Thermopylae in...
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  • 300 (film) (category Battle of Thermopylae)
    series of the same name by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley. The film, like its source material, is a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae in...
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    the battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium and conquered Thessaly, Phocis, Boeotia, Athens, Euboea and Attica. However, at the ensuing Battle of Salamis...
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    Molon labe (category Battle of Thermopylae)
    exchange between Leonidas and Xerxes occurs in writing, on the eve of the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC). Look up βλώσκω in Wiktionary, the free dictionary....
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    Xerxes I (redirect from Xerxes I of Persia)
    victories at Thermopylae and Artemisium before capturing and razing Athens. His forces gained control of mainland Greece north of the Isthmus of Corinth until...
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    invasion of Greece with one of the largest ancient armies ever assembled. Victory over the allied Greek states at the famous Battle of Thermopylae allowed...
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    Cato the Elder (category Characters in Book VI of the Aeneid)
    invasion of Antiochus III the Great, King of the Seleucid Empire. In the decisive Battle of Thermopylae (191 BC), which led to the downfall of Antiochus...
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    victories at the battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium, and conquered Thessaly, Boeotia and Attica; however, at the ensuing Battle of Salamis, the allied...
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    Battle of Thermopylae was fought in 323 BC between the Macedonians and a coalition of armies including Athens and the Aetolian League in the pass of Thermopylae...
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  • Brennus (3rd century BC) (category Year of birth unknown)
    place in the battle if he was killed or wounded, so the actual number of horsemen was in fact 61,200. The Greeks, mustered at Thermopylae under the Athenian...
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    historical person of Leonidas.: PT198  One estimation dates the sculpture before rather than after 480 BC, the year of the Battle of Thermopylae where Leonidas...
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  • 300 (comics) (category Battle of Thermopylae)
    comic is a fictional retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae and the events leading up to it from the perspective of Leonidas of Sparta. 300 was particularly...
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    fleet was blocked by an Allied fleet at the straits of Artemisium. At the famous Battle of Thermopylae, the Allied army held back the Persian army for three...
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    Greeks north of Corinth took up quarters at the narrow pass of Thermopylae, on the east coast of central Greece. During the initial assault, Brennus' forces...
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  • position at Thermopylae. His efforts allowed the Persian army to overrun the Greeks' defensive formation and thereby win the Battle of Thermopylae in September...
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