Persia

There are 1590 items in Persia:

Datis

Datis (Elamite Datiya, Old Persian *Dâtiça): Median general, commander of the Persian troops in the battle of Marathon in 490 BCE. …

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Decelean War

Decelean War or Ionian War: name of the last part of the Peloponnesian War (431-404). The first phase, the Archidamian War, had ended in 421 with something that came close to an Athenian victory. However, Athenian diplomatic mistakes, Spartan intransigence,…

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