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Close ✕Marathon and the Tumulus of the Athenians
The plain of Marathon in north-eastern Attica, about 42 km from Athens, where an Athenian and Plataean force defeated a Persian expedition in 490 BCE.
38.1, 24.0 · exact · battle 490 BCE; tumulus excavated 1891; site extant
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- A place in: The Great Marathons · 15 places
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Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
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