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He then ran the 40 km (25 mi) to the battlefield near Marathon and back to Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon (490 BC) with the word νικῶμεν (nikomen [8] 'We win!'), as stated by Lucian chairete, nikomen ('hail, we are the winners') [9] and then collapsed and died.
The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo. Hood, E. The Greek Victory at Marathon Archived 2017-08-14 at the Wayback Machine, Clio History Journal, 1995. Battle of Marathon by e-marathon.gr (in Greek) The Battle of Marathon September 490 BC Archived 2016-10-19 at the Wayback Machine (in Greek)
Marathon battle memorial. The beach of Schinias is located southeast of the town. The beach is popular as a spot for windsurfing and the Olympic Rowing Center used for the 2004 Summer Olympics is also located there. At the 1896 and 2004 Summer Olympics, Marathon was the starting point of the marathon races (for both women and men in 2004).
The second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece. The invasion was a direct, if delayed, response to the defeat of the first Persian invasion of Greece (492–490 BC) at the Battle of Marathon, which ended Darius I's attempts to subjugate Greece.
NAXOS, Greece (Reuters) - The biggest reservoir on the Greek island of Naxos has dried up, useful only to the turtles that cruise its muddy shallows. Downstream, sea water has seeped into empty ...
Delos is the small island directly to the bottom-left of Mykonos. Moving on, the Persian fleet approached Delos, whereupon the Delians also fled from their homes. [87] Having demonstrated Persian power at Naxos, Datis now intended to show clemency to the other islands, if they submitted to him. [85] He sent a herald to the Delians, proclaiming:
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