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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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