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They were usuall a one-year affair to settle a dispute between two cities. Then various alliances and leagues often extended the capacity to fight extended wars. A case in point is the Peloponnesian War between Athens and its allies and Sparta and its allies which lasted from 421 BCE to 404 BCE.

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