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    The Ionian Revolt, and associated revolts in Aeolis, Doris, Cyprus and Caria, were military rebellions by several Greek regions of Asia Minor against...
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    into rebellion against the Persians. This was the beginning of the Ionian Revolt, which would last until 493 BC, progressively drawing more regions of...
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    first Persian invasion was a response to Athenian involvement in the Ionian Revolt, when Athens and Eretria sent a force to support the cities of Ionia...
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    Ionia (section Ionian revolt)
    northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements[citation needed]. Never a unified state, it was named after the Ionians who had settled in the...
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    Aristagoras (category Ionian Revolt)
    tyrant of the Ionian city of Miletus in the late 6th century BC and early 5th century BC. He acted as one of the instigators of the Ionian Revolt against the...
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    Battle of Lade (category Ionian Revolt)
    naval battle which occurred during the Ionian Revolt, in 494 BC. It was fought between an alliance of the Ionian cities (joined by the Lesbians) and the...
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    rulers were Otanes and Darius' younger brother, Artaphernes. During the Ionian revolt in 499 BC, Sardis was sacked by the Greeks. Five years later, the rebellion...
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    The first Persian invasion of Greece had its immediate roots in the Ionian Revolt, the earliest phase of the Greco-Persian Wars. However, it was also...
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    Greece and punish Athens and its allies for their interference in the Ionian Revolt. In 480 BC, Xerxes personally led a large army and crossed the Hellespont...
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    Ionian revolt. The Persians defeated the Greek army and compelled the Athenians and Eretrians to abandon their alliance with the Ionians. The Ionian Revolt...
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    an important role in both the Siege of Naxos and in suppressing the Ionian Revolt. Artaphernes was likely an adaptation of by the etymology (Greek phren...
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    Greece and punish Athens and Eretria for their participation in the Ionian Revolt. Although his campaign ultimately resulted in failure at the Battle...
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    Amphictyonic League List of ancient Greek alliances Ionia (satrapy) Ionian Revolt Hallmannsecker 2022, pp. 66, 109–111. "Recent Finds in Archaeology:...
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    Kırşehir, Sivas and Niğde. According to Herodotus, in the time of the Ionian Revolt (499 BC), the Cappadocians were reported as occupying a region from...
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    unsuccessful Ionian Revolt against the Persian Empire of Darius I in 499–494 BC. The Persian Empire was still relatively young and prone to revolts amongst...
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  • the city was not under Persian control, which only happened after the Ionian Revolt of 499 – 494. In the 500s, Cleomenes meddled four times in Athenian...
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    city of Amathus, the Kingdoms of Cyprus took part in the Ionian Revolt in 499 BC. The revolt on Cyprus was led by Onesilos of Salamis, brother of the...
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    Histiaeus (category Ionian Revolt)
    base in Byzantium. Meanwhile, the Persians defeated the leaders of the Ionian revolt at the Battle of Lade in 494 BC. When Histiaeus learned of this he left...
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    south-west, and parts of Oman, China, and the UAE. The Ionian Revolt in 499 BC, and associated revolts in Aeolis, Doris, Cyprus, and Caria, were military...
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  • Mardonius (nephew of Darius I) (category Ionian Revolt)
    generals and, after the Ionian Revolt, sent him in 492 BC to retaliate against the Greek city-state of Athens for assisting the Ionians. On his way to Athens...
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    During the revolt, Aristagoras of Miletus captured Myrcinus from the Edones and died trying to attack another Thracian city. Once the Ionian Revolt had been...
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    subdued the revolt, there remained the unfinished business of exacting punishment on Athens and Eretria for supporting the revolt. The Ionian revolt had severely...
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    Miletus), Aristagoras induces the Ionian cities of Asia Minor to revolt against Persia, thus instigating the Ionian Revolt and beginning the Greco-Persian...
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    Datis was a Persian commander during the Ionian Revolt. Datis led the counter-offensive against the Ionians in 494 BCE. Datis and another officer named...
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    conflicts represent a continuation of the Greco-Persian Wars, after the Ionian Revolt and the first and second Persian invasions of Greece. The Greek alliance...
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    make his kingdom a vassal of the Achaemenids. In 492 BC, following the Ionian Revolt, the Persian general Mardonius firmly re-tightened the Persian grip...
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    Siege of Naxos (499 BC) (category Ionian Revolt)
    the revolt. In 492 BC therefore the first Persian invasion of Greece would begin as a consequence of the failed attack on Naxos, and the Ionian Revolt. In...
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    The first Persian invasion was a response to Greek involvement in the Ionian Revolt, when the Eretrians and Athenians had sent a force to support the cities...
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  • Eualcides (category Ionian Revolt)
    Eualcides (Ancient Greek: Ευαλκίδης) (d. 498 BCE) was a Greek athlete and military commander from Eretria who was killed by the Persians during the Battle...
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  • sent by Darius to punish Athens and Eretria for their support for the Ionian Revolt. Artaphernes and Datis besieged and destroyed Eretria, but were beaten...
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