There were several - mainly Salamis, Mykale, Eurymedon, Cyprus.
There were two - Salamis, in the bay between the island of Salamis and Athens in 480 BCE, and at Mykale in Asia Minor in 479 BCE.
Salamis Bay
The Battle of Manila Bay.
Manila Bay
Manila Bay in the Philippine Islands.
Manila Bay.
In the strait of Salamis 480 BCE, where the Persian war fleet was defeated by the Greek. Loss of naval superiority exposed Xerxes' sea supply line and he had to take half his army home, the other half having to withdraw to Thessaly for the winter as the country south could not support his cavalry.Also, with the threat of amphibious invasion of their cities gone, the cities of the Peloponnese were able to release their armies the following summer 479 BCE to concentrate at Plataia where they defeated the Persian army and its Greek allies. At the same time, the Greek fleet destroyed the remnant of the Persian fleet at Mykale and so the Persian threat collapsed.
They began in 499 BCE at Miletus when its tyrant initiated a revolt against Persian rule when he faced reprisals from the Persian governor. A second phase began when a Persian punitive expedition was launched against Eretria and Athens for intervening in this revolt. This expedition was turned beck at the battle Marathon north of Athens 10 years later.
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Asia Minor was the site of the first five years of the war, when the Ionian Greek city-states revolted against Persian rule. Persia levied taxes on these states, but this was not the cause of the war breaking out. Persian taxes were so reasonable that when the cities were liberated from Persian rule, their taxes were set at the Persian rate.
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