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The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC. The collision between the fractious political world of the Greeks and the enormous empire of the Persians began when Cyrus the Great conquered the Greek ...
A map of the ancient world centered on Greece. Based on the above definition, the "cores" of the Greco-Roman world can be confidently stated to have been the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, specifically the Italian Peninsula, Greece, Cyprus, the Iberian Peninsula, the Anatolian Peninsula (modern-day Turkey), Gaul (modern-day France), the Syrian region (modern-day Levantine countries, Central ...
It came to dominate South-Western Europe, South-Eastern Europe/the Balkans and the Mediterranean region through conquest and assimilation. Pont du Gard, a Roman aqueduct built c. 19 BC. Originally ruled by Kings who ruled the settlement and a small area of land nearby, the Romans established a republic in 509BC that would last for five centuries.
499 BC: Greco-Persian Wars begin. c. 480 BC: The Thracian Odrysian kingdom was founded as the most important Daco-Thracian state union. [186] 449 BC: End of Greco-Persian Wars with Greeks defeating Achaemid Empire. 440 BC: Herodotus defends Athenian political freedom in the Histories. 404 BC: Sparta wins the Peloponnesian War.
The first Persian invasion of Greece took place from 492 BC to 490 BC, as part of the Greco-Persian Wars. It ended with a decisive Athenian -led victory over the Achaemenid Empire during the Battle of Marathon .
Though heavily outnumbered, the Athenians—supported by their Plataean allies—defeated the Persian hordes at the Battle of Marathon, and the Persian fleet turned tail. [32] Map showing events of the first phases of the Greco-Persian Wars. Delian League ("Athenian Empire"), immediately before the Peloponnesian War in 431 BC.
Septinsular Republic (1799–1815), independent under nominal Russian and Ottoman sovereignty. The Ionian Islands were under Venetian Sovereignty from 1386-1797. During this time, the main administrative body of the islands was the General Council of Corfu which was made up of aristocratic families, both Orthodox and Catholic.
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