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Greece did not fight at Marathon because Greece as a country did not exist. The Greek world comprised hundreds of independent city-states around the Mediterranean Sea from present day France to Asia Minor.

The Athenian army, aided by Plataia, was waiting near the plain of Marathon for the arrival of the Spartans, staying in the hills to avoid the superior Persian cavalry. They saw the cavalry being embarked on ships, and took the opportunity to run down and defeat the unsupported inferior Persian infantry.

Then, realising the cavalry was being rowed around to capture their city in their absence, they ran back the 26 miles to Athens and formed up just in time to turn them back.

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