The siege of Athens can refer to any of the following battles:
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Persian sack of Athens (480 BC) - Amid which the Persians besieged a group of holdouts in the Acropolis
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Siege of Athens (404 BC) - Last battle in the
Peloponnesian War
The Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC) was an ancient Greek war fought between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies for the hegemony of the Greek world. The war remained undecided for a long time until the decisive intervention of th ...
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Siege of Athens (287 BC)
The siege of Athens lasted through 287 BC when the city was put under siege by King Demetrius I of Macedon. Athens revolted in that year against Demetrius' rule and elected Olympiodorus as strategos. Olympiodorus raised a force among the Atheni ...
- Siege by Demetrius I of Macedon
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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
Slavic incursions in 582 AD
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Siege of the Acropolis (1402–03) by
Antonio I Acciaioli
Antonio I Acciaioli, also known as Anthony I Acciaioli or Antonio I Acciajuoli (died January 1435), was Duke of Athens from 1403.
Early life
Antonio was the illegitimate son of Nerio I Acciaioli. Historians Kenneth Setton and Peter Lock say that ...
against Venice
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Siege of the Acropolis (1456–58) by the Ottomans against the Latin
Duchy of Athens
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Siege of the Acropolis (1687) by the Venetians against the Ottomans, during the
Morean War
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Siege of the Acropolis (1821–22) by the Greeks against the Ottomans, during the Greek War of Independence
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Siege of the Acropolis (1826–27) by the Ottomans against the Greeks, during the Greek War of Independence
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