Sparta and Athens were allies against Persia in the Persian War.
Spear and sword.
Yes.
Yes, the Spartans did fight against the Greeks. They fought them in the Peloponnesian War.
The Spartans and Persians did not fight a war. The Spartans were part of a coalition of Greek states which opposed the Persian invasion of mainland Greece 480-479 BCE. A Spartan force under King Agesilaos II invaded Persian Asia Minor in 396-395, liberating Greek cities and looting, but was withdrawn to face troubles at home.
The battle of Thermopylae.
The defence of the pass at Thermopylae by 7,000 Greek soldiers, including the Spartans, lasted three days.
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No, it was the Athenians. Salamis was a sea battle, and at that time Sparta had no navy. Salamis appeared as a chance for the Persians to destroy the Athenian ships, but it was a trap, and the turning point of the Second Persian War.
The Persian Empire and a coalition of Greek city-states.
Arcadian War, Argive War, Messenian War, Persian war, Peloponnesian War, Corinthian War, Boeotian War.
The Spartans combined with the other southern Greek states to repel a Persian invasion designed to incorporate mainland Greece within the Persian empire in 480-479 BCE.It is often called today the Persian War, however the Greeks fought the Persians off and on over two hundred years.