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  2. Long Walls - Wikipedia

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    In the early 450s BC, fighting began between Athens and various Peloponnesian allies of Sparta, particularly Corinth and Aegina.In the midst of this fighting between 462 BC and 458 BC, Athens had begun construction of two more walls, the Long Walls, one running from the city to the old port at Phalerum, the other to the newer port at Piraeus.

  3. City walls of Athens - Wikipedia

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    the Long Walls, built in the 460s and 440s BC, connecting Athens with its ports at Piraeus and Phaleron; the Protocheisma, a second wall built in front of the Themistoclean Wall in 338 BC as an extra defence against the Macedonians; the Diateichisma, built in the 280s BC as a second line of defence against Macedonian-held Piraeus

  4. Balcones Fault - Wikipedia

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    ] Fault or Balcones Fault Zone is an area of largely normal faulting [1] in the U.S. state of Texas that runs roughly from the southwest part of the state near Del Rio to the north-central region near Dallas [2] along Interstate 35. The Balcones Fault zone is made up of many smaller features, including normal faults, grabens, and horsts. [3]

  5. Plague of Athens - Wikipedia

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    [3] Thucydides says that the plague spread from Ethiopia to Athens, [9] and that the plague first emerged in the port of Piraeus, from ships with plague-infected passengers, whence it spread to Athens via the Long Walls, where refugees would camp out. He says that crowding and poor hygiene in the Long Walls led to a significant spread of the ...

  6. Battle of Piraeus - Wikipedia

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    In pursuit, the Spartan cavalry and advance infantry entered Piraeus, where they encountered a large body of light troops, and were driven back with losses. Thrasybulus then came out with his hoplite force to press the issue; the Spartan hoplites engaged them, and, after a time, defeated them, inflicting 150 casualties.

  7. Siege of Athens and Piraeus (87–86 BC) - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Athens and Piraeus was a siege of the First Mithridatic War that took place from autumn of 87 BC to the spring of 86 BC. [5] The battle was fought between the forces of the Roman Republic , commanded by Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix on the one hand, and the forces of the Kingdom of Pontus and the Athenian City-State on the other.

  8. Barge hits bridge connecting Galveston and Pelican Island ...

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    The Texas Department of Transportation had been scheduled in the summer of 2025 to begin construction on a project to replace the bridge with a new one. The project was estimated to cost $194 million.

  9. Delian League - Wikipedia

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    Athenian Empire in 445 BC, according to the Tribute Lists. The islands of Lesbos, Chios and Samos (shaded on the map) did not pay tribute.. The Greco-Persian Wars had their roots in the conquest of the Greek cities of Asia Minor, and particularly Ionia, by the Achaemenid Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great shortly after 550 BC.