The Greeks fought the Persians in the Greco-Persian Wars
Its called ''the Persian wars'' or the ''Greco-Persian wars''.
The war between the Greek city-states and the Persian Empire 499-449 BCE.
Which Greek wars? Did you mean the Peloponnesian War, which was fought by the city-states of Athens and Sparta(and their allies)? Athens lost that war. There was the Greco-Persian War, fought between some of the city-states of Greece and the Persian Empire. A stalemate was reached. These are two of the wars that Greece has participated in form or another.
The Persian invasion of mainland Greece 480-479 BCE.
The second greco-persian war
When was the 'First' Persian War.
Greco-Persian Wars happened in -449.
It was between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire. Today we call it the Persian War to differentiate it from the wars between the Greek city-states. It is often called the Greco-Persian War.
Their loss in the Greco-Persian War as well as internal unrest within conquered lands.
The Greco-Persian Wars took place primarily in ancient Greece and the Persian Empire, spanning from 499 to 449 BCE. Key battles occurred in various locations, including Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea. These conflicts were primarily fought over control and influence in the Aegean region and involved major Greek city-states like Athens and Sparta against the Persian Empire.
It would only be a war if they fought, wouldn't it.