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
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Siege of Athens (287 BC) - Siege by Demetrius I of Macedon
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Siege of Athens and Piraeus (87–86 BC)
The siege of Athens and Piraeus was a siege of the First Mithridatic War that took place from Autumn of 87 BC to the Spring and Summer of 86 BC. The battle was fought between the forces of the Roman Republic, commanded by Lucius Cornelius Su ...
- Siege by Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix during the First Mithridatic War
* Sack of Athens by the
Heruli
The Heruli (or Herules) were an early Germanic people. Possibly originating in Scandinavia, the Heruli are first mentioned by Roman authors as one of several " Scythian" groups raiding Roman provinces in the Balkans and the Aegean Sea, attacking ...
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 against Venice
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Siege of the Acropolis (1456–58) by the Ottomans against the Latin
Duchy of Athens
The Duchy of Athens (Greek: Δουκᾶτον Ἀθηνῶν, ''Doukaton Athinon''; Catalan: ''Ducat d'Atenes'') was one of the Crusader states set up in Greece after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade as part of th ...
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Siege of the Acropolis (1687)
The siege of the Acropolis took place on 23–29 September 1687, as the Venetian army under Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck laid siege to the Acropolis of Athens, held by the Ottoman garrison of the city. The siege resulted in the destruction of a lar ...
by the Venetians against the Ottomans, during the
Morean War
The Morean War ( it, Guerra di Morea), also known as the Sixth Ottoman–Venetian War, was fought between 1684–1699 as part of the wider conflict known as the " Great Turkish War", between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. Military ...
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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) 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 o ...
by the Ottomans against the Greeks, during the Greek War of Independence
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