The siege of Athens can refer to any of the following battles:
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Persian sack of Athens (480 BC) – during which the Persians besieged a group of holdouts in the Acropolis
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Siege of Athens (404 BC), the last battle in the
Peloponnesian War
The Second Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), often called simply the Peloponnesian War (), was an Ancient Greece, ancient Greek war fought between Classical Athens, Athens and Sparta and their respective allies for the hegemony of the Ancien ...
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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), siege by Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix during the First Mithridatic War
* Sack of Athens by the
Heruli
The Heruli (also Eluri, Eruli, Herules, Herulians) were one of the smaller Germanic peoples of Late Antiquity, known from records in the third to sixth centuries AD.
The best recorded group of Heruli established a kingdom north of the Middle Danu ...
in 267 AD
* Sack of Athens by the
Visigoths
The Visigoths (; ) were a Germanic people united under the rule of a king and living within the Roman Empire during late antiquity. The Visigoths first appeared in the Balkans, as a Roman-allied Barbarian kingdoms, barbarian military group unite ...
in 396 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 tha ...
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 language, Greek: Δουκᾶτον Ἀθηνῶν, ''Doukaton Athinon''; Catalan language, Catalan: ''Ducat d'Atenes'') was one of the Crusader states set up in Greece after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during ...
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Siege of the Acropolis (1687) by the Venetians against the Ottomans, during the
Morean War
The Morean war (), 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 operations ranged ...
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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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Athens
Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...