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What was the city of Marathon that the Greeks fought off the Persians in?
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∙ 11y ago
There was no city of Marathon. It was a plain 26 miles north of Athens.
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What is the city where the Greeks defeated the Persians and gave us the name of the running race?
Not a city - the Plain of Marathon.
What major Greek city fought off the Persians at the tiny seaport town of Marathon?
Athens. Marathon was a plain, not a tiny seaport town.
What is the name of the battle in 490 BC that the Greeks were defeated by Persia?
It was not the Greeks but the Greek city-state of Eretria.The Persians then switched to Athens which defeated them at Marathon.
Which city fought off the Persians in a tiny seaport town of marathon and why?
Marathon was a plain. The combined armies of Athens and Plataea defeated a Persian punitive expedition on the Marathon plain.
City where the Greeks defeated the Persians and gave us the name of the running race?
Not the Greeks, but the Greek city-states of Athens and Plataea, The battle in 490 BCE was on the plain of Marathon (not a city) 26 miles north of Athens.
What major city in Greece fought off the Persians at the tiny seaport town of marathon?
Marathon was a plain. Athens and its ally Plataea defeated a Persian punitive expedition on the plain.
What did being defeated by the Greeks cost the Persians?
Control of the Greek city-states in Asia Minor - however they took them back 50 years later as the Greeks fought each other.
What Persian city did the Greeks burn in 490bc after the battle of marathon?
It was the other way round - the Athenians and Eretrians burnt the Persian provincial capital of Sardis in 498 BCE, which caused the Persians to try to suppress them, frustrated by their loss at Marathon.
In what year did the Greeks win the battle near the city of marathon?
Marathon was a plain, not a city. It was owned by Athens. They fought a battle against a Persian amphibious punitive expedition sent by Persia in 490 BCE.
What was the name of the city where the Greeks defeated the Persians?
Plataea.
What two city states fought the Persians?
There were nearly 200 city-states who united to fight off the Persians.
Which groups fought in the Persian war?
The Persian Empire versus varying combinations of Greek city-states.
