who fought in the battle of salamis?
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Battle of Salamis, (480 bc), battle in the Greco-Persian Wars in which a Greek fleet defeated much larger Persian naval forces in the straits at Salamis, between the island of Salamis and the Athenian port-city of Piraeus.
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519 bce—died 465, Persepolis, Iran), Persian king (486–465 bce), the son and successor of Darius I. He is best known for his massive invasion of Greece from across the Hellespont (480 bce), a campaign marked by the battles of Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea.
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In 1 Samuel Chapter 17, the Philistines are once again gearing up for war against the Israelites. Saul, who is the King of the Israelites, and his forces come to occupy one hill and the Philistines another, with the valley of Elah separating them. The Philistine's champion, Goliath, emerges from the Philistine camp.
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['– Archimedes. ... ', '– Democritus. ... ', '– Diophantus. ... ', '– Eratosthenes. ... ', '– Euclid. ... ', '– Hipparchus. ... ', '– Heron Of Alexandria. ... ', '– Ptolemy.']
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Battle of Verdun, (February 21–December 18, 1916), World War I engagement in which the French repulsed a major German offensive. It was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most-ferocious battles of the war; French casualties amounted to about 400,000, German ones to about 350,000.
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The Great Peloponnesian War, also called the First Peloponnesian War, was the first major scuffle between them. It became a 15-year conflict between Athens and Sparta and their allies. Peace was decreed by the signing of the Thirty Years Treaty in 445 B.C., effective until 437 B.C., when the Peloponnesian War began.
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The Battle In 490 B.C.E., the Persian navy sailed down the coast of Greece and landed at the bay of Marathon, about 40 miles north of Athens. The Athenian army, led by General Miltiades, moved to block the Persians' advance and trapped them on the plains around the bay.
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Hannibal (/ˈhænɪbəl/; Punic: 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤟𐤁𐤓𐤒, BRQ ḤNBʿL; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded Carthage's main army against Rome during the Second Punic War (218–201 BC). He is widely considered one of the greatest military commanders in world history.
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Life. Xerxes was the son of King Darius, who during an attempt to invade and conquer Greece, was killed by Themistocles of Athens by a well-placed arrow. Xerxes saw the arrow coming and tried save his father, but he was too late.
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['Akragas Dekadrachm. ... ', 'Dekadrachm of Athens. ... ', 'Gold Stater of Athens. ... ', 'Jewish War Prototype Shekel. ... ', 'Brutus Aureus. ... ', 'Hadrian “Medallic” Sestertius 135 CE. ... ', 'Severus Alexander Coliseum Aureus. ... ', 'Maxentius Gold Medallion.']
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Gyke and the ship are near the Hill of the Sacred War in Phokis. They are east of Bulis Military Camp.
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['Khalid ibn Walid. ... ', 'Frederick the Great. ... ', 'Conquest of Gaul. (58 BC) by Caesar.', 'March across the Alps. (218 BC) by Hannibal.', 'Defeat of Persia. (334 BC – 329 BC) by Alexander.', 'Mongol Invasion of China. (1218 – 79)', 'Defeat of the Third Coalition. (1805) by Napoleon.', 'Fall of France. 1940.']
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The Battle of Nineveh is conventionally dated between 613 and 611 BC, with 612 BC being the most supported date. Rebelling against the Assyrians, an allied army which combined the forces of Medes and the Babylonians, besieged Nineveh and sacked 750 hectares of what was, at that time, the greatest city in the world.
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The Myrmidons (or Myrmidones Μυρμιδόνες) were an ancient nation of Greek mythology. In Homer's Iliad, the Myrmidons are the soldiers commanded by Achilles. Their eponymous ancestor was Myrmidon, a king of Phthiotis who was a son of Zeus and "wide-ruling" Eurymedousa, a princess of Phthiotis.
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330 B.C. Philotas, commander of the elite Companion cavalry, is tried, tortured, and executed for allegedly participating in a murder conspiracy. Alexander then orders the death of Philotas's father, the respected general Parmenio.
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The Delian League (or Athenian League) was an alliance of Greek city-states led by Athens and formed in 478 BCE to liberate eastern Greek cities from Persian rule and as a defence to possible revenge attacks from Persia following the Greek victories at Marathon, Salamis, and Plataea in the early 5th century BCE.
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The Peloponnesian War was a war fought in ancient Greece between Athens and Sparta—the two most powerful city-states in ancient Greece at the time (431 to 405 B.C.E.). This war shifted power from Athens to Sparta, making Sparta the most powerful city-state in the region.