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Siege Of Athens (other)
The siege of Athens can refer to any of the following battles: * Persian sack of Athens (480 BC) - Amid which the Persians besieged a group of holdouts in the Acropolis * Siege of Athens (404 BC) - Last battle in the Peloponnesian War * Siege of Athens (287 BC) - Siege by Demetrius I of Macedon * Siege of Athens and Piraeus (87–86 BC) - Siege by Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix during the First Mithridatic War * Sack of Athens by the Heruli in 267 AD * Sack of Athens during the Sclaveni, Slavic incursions in 582 AD * Siege of the Acropolis (1402–03) by Antonio I Acciaioli against Venice * Siege of the Acropolis (1456–58) by the Ottomans against the Latin Duchy of Athens * Siege of the Acropolis (1687) by the Venetians against the Ottomans, during the Morean War * Siege of the Acropolis (1821–22) by the Greeks against the Ottomans, during the Greek War of Independence * Siege of the Acropolis (1826–27) by the Ottomans against the Greeks, during the Greek War of Independence {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Sack Of Athens
The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Polis, Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC. The collision between the fractious political world of the Greeks and the enormous empire of the Persians began when Cyrus the Great conquered the Greek-inhabited region of Ionia in 547 BC. Struggling to control the independent-minded cities of Ionia, the Persians appointed Tyrant#Historical forms, tyrants to rule each of them. This would prove to be the source of much trouble for the Greeks and Persians alike. In 499 BC, the tyrant of Miletus, Aristagoras, embarked on an Siege of Naxos (499 BC), expedition to conquer the island of Naxos Island, Naxos, with Persian support; however, the expedition was a debacle and, preempting his dismissal, Aristagoras incited all of Hellenic Asia Minor into rebellion against the Persians. This was the beginning of the Ionian Revolt, which would last unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
