Plataea
Americannoun
noun
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That hegemony was the result of the settlement that followed the Greco-Persian wars, which ended with Persia’s defeat at Plataea in 479 B.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
The Greek allied forces under the command of Sparta advanced into Boeotia and met the Persian army at the Battle of Plataea.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
We learn how, in fifth-century bc Greece, Persian troops crumbled when a coalition of Athenians and Spartans forced them into marshlands before the Battle of Plataea.
From Nature ● Aug. 11, 2019
The bulk of the army that defeated Mardonius at Plataea came from the Peloponnese; at Chaeronea no Peloponnesian state was represented.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
Hekataeus of Miletus, the logographer; born in 549 B.C., died soon after the battle of Plataea.
From On the Sublime by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
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