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Years: 490BCE - 490BCE
August
…the Plain of Marathon northeast of Athens, a spot preselected by the Athenian Alcemeonid faction, led by Hippias, which hopes to be restored to power by the would-be conquerors. (The Peisistratids came originally from eastern Attica.)
The Persian army of twenty-five thousand men lands unopposed.
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- Athens, City-State of
- Ionians
- Greece, classical
- Persian people
- Naxos (Ionian Greek) city-state of
- Eretria, City-State of
- Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire
Topics
- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Greco-Persian Wars, Early
- Persian Invasion of Greece, First
- Marathon, Battle of
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Years: 490BCE - 490BCE
August
Locations
Groups
- Athens, City-State of
- Ionians
- Greece, classical
- Persian people
- Naxos (Ionian Greek) city-state of
- Eretria, City-State of
- Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire
Topics
- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Greco-Persian Wars, Early
- Persian Invasion of Greece, First
- Marathon, Battle of
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions