The Persians and the Greeks (Athens and Sparta). There were 2 wars and three famous battles.
1. 490Bc - Dareius (P) - Miltiades (G); the Greeks won in the battle at Matathon.
2. 480BC -Xerxes (P) - Leonidas (G); the Persians won at Thermopylai.
3. 480BC - Xerxes (P)-Themistocles (G); the Greeks won at Salamis.
The war lasted 50 years - two generations. There were obviously many leaders on both sides. Which period did you have in mind?
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the two sides during the US civil war were the union (North) and the confederacy (south)
Persian War I, Persian War II, The Peloponnesean War, The Macedonian War, …
Darius I --- King of Persian Empire during First Persian War, 490 BC. Xerxes --- King of Persian Empire during Second Persian War, 480-479 BC. Mardonius --- Persian general in both Persian Wars. Datis and Artaphernes --- Persian generals at Battle of Marathon. Miltiades --- Athenian general at Battle of Marathon. Leonidas --- Spartan general at Battle of Thermopylae. Themistocles --- Athenian admiral at Battle of Salamis. Pausanias --- Spartan general at Battle of Plataea.
The United States and the Soviet Union were the two countries on opposite sides during the Cold War. The Cold War ended in 1991.
Xerxes I.
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By the Persian king Xerxes.
It did not. The Persian War finished two decades before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War.
It depends on the war. During the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991, the two nations were adversaries, but in the previous Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988, the two countries were allies against Iran.
Persian War - the Persian Empire versus varying coalitions of Greek city-states. Peloponnesian War - the Athenian Empire versus the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.