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    Thermopylae (/θərˈmɒpɪliː/; Ancient Greek and Katharevousa: Θερμοπύλαι, romanized: Thermopylai; Ancient: [tʰermopýlai], Katharevousa: [θermoˈpile̞]; Demotic...
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    The Battle of Thermopylae (/θərˈmɒpɪliː/ thər-MOP-i-lee; Greek: Μάχη τῶν Θερμοπυλῶν, Máchē tōn Thermopylōn) was fought in 480 BC between the Achaemenid...
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  • Thermopylae is a mountain passage in central Greece. Thermopylae may also refer to: Thermopylae (clipper), an extreme composite clipper ship built 1868...
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    Polish Thermopylae is a name used to refer to several battles in Polish history. The Polish Thermopylae is a reference to the Battle of Thermopylae, where...
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    Leonidas at Thermopylae is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jacques-Louis David. The work currently hangs in the Louvre in Paris, France. David...
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  • Battle of Thermopylae was a battle fought in 480 BC during the Persian Wars. Battle of Thermopylae may also refer to: Battle of Thermopylae (323 BC),...
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    Leonidas I (category Battle of Thermopylae)
    Leonidas led the allied Greek forces in a last stand at the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC), attempting to defend the pass from the invading Persian army...
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    Thermopylae was an extreme composite clipper ship built in 1868 by Walter Hood & Co of Aberdeen, to the design of Bernard Waymouth of London. Designed...
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  • of the 400-man Theban contingent of the Greek army at the Battle of Thermopylae. Little was recorded about his life before or after the battle, but according...
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    only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Thermopylae, after the Battle of Thermopylae. Thermopylae was laid down on 26 October 1943 at Chatham Dockyard...
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    The Battle of Thermopylae, on 24–25 April 1941, was part of the German invasion of Greece during World War II. Following the retreat of Allied forces...
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    The Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BCE was a last stand by a Greek army led by King Leonidas I of Sparta against an Achaemenid Persian army led by Xerxes...
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  • Ephialtes of Trachis (category Battle of Thermopylae)
    around the allied Greek position at the pass of Thermopylae, which helped them win the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. The allied Greek land forces, which...
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    Greece. The battle took place simultaneously with the land battle at Thermopylae, in August or September 480 BC, off the coast of Euboea and was fought...
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    was a regatta, held in 1872 between two "tea clippers" Cutty Sark and Thermopylae. Clipper ships were small ships used to deliver Tea along the trade route...
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    Macedon to Thessaly. The Persian advance was blocked at the pass of Thermopylae by a small Allied force under King Leonidas I of Sparta; simultaneously...
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  • Aristodemus (died 479 BC) (category Battle of Thermopylae)
    479 BC) was a Spartan warrior, one of the 300 sent to the Battle of Thermopylae. Aristodemus was the only Spartan survivor, as he was not present at...
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  • Thermopylae is a 1966 bronze sculpture by Dimitri Hadzi, installed at Boston City Hall Plaza near the John F. Kennedy Federal Building, in Boston's Government...
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    Molon labe (category Battle of Thermopylae)
    between Leonidas and Xerxes occurs in writing, on the eve of the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC). Look up βλώσκω in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up...
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    "Thermopylae"), and human dignity (for example, "The God Abandons Antony"). The poem "Thermopylae" reminds us of the famous battle of Thermopylae where...
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    for tea.: introduction  In 1868 the brand-new Aberdeen-built clipper, Thermopylae, set a record time of 61 days port to port on her maiden voyage from...
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    assembled. Victory over the allied Greek states at the famous Battle of Thermopylae allowed the Persians to torch an evacuated Athens and overrun most of...
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    block the Persian advance, a small force of Greeks blocked the pass of Thermopylae, while an Athenian-dominated allied navy engaged the Persian fleet in...
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  • 300 (comics) (category Battle of Thermopylae)
    by Lynn Varley. The comic is a fictional retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae and the events leading up to it from the perspective of Leonidas of Sparta...
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  • The Battle of Thermopylae in 254 was the successful defense of the pass of Thermopylae by local Greek militia under Marianus, the Roman proconsul of Achaea...
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    The Battle of Thermopylae was fought in 323 BC between the Macedonians and a coalition of armies including Athens and the Aetolian League in the pass...
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    The Battle of Thermopylae was fought in 279 BC between invading Gallic armies and a combined army of Greek Aetolians, Boeotians, Athenians, and Phocians...
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    Persian invasion of Greece the Greeks hoped to use the narrow pass of Thermopylae to prevent the vastly large army of the Persians from outflanking them...
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    Xerxes I (category Battle of Thermopylae)
    army and crossed the Hellespont into Europe. He achieved victories at Thermopylae and Artemisium before capturing and razing Athens. His forces gained...
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    The 300 Spartans (category Battle of Thermopylae)
    300 Spartans is a 1962 CinemaScope epic film depicting the Battle of Thermopylae. It was directed by Rudolph Maté and stars Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson...
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