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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Ancient Boeotia, Dervenochori, People from Boeotia, Populated places in the Boeotia Prefecture, Thebes, Greece, Luke the Evangelist, Chaeronea, Battle of Plataea, Agios Thomas, Boeotia, Orchomenus, Levadiakos F.C., Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens, Pandelis Pouliopoulos, Messapio Mountains, Schimatari, Arachova, Tanagra, Lake Copais, Distomo, Livadeia, Pyli, Boeotia, List of settlements in the Boeotia prefecture, Steiri, Greek National Road 48, Skourta, Theodoros Vryzakis, Ocalea, Dafni, Boeotia, Stefani, Greece, Aluminium de Grece, Leontari, Thebes, Antikyra, Paralia Distomou, Dervenochoria, Oinofyta, Parori, Boeotia, Kyriaki, Battle of Tanagra, Alkyonides Gulf, Davleia, Thiva F.C., Greek National Road 44, Distomo-Arachova-Antikyra, Aliartos, Xironomi, Koroneia, Boeotia, North Euboean Gulf, Boeotarch, Christos Palaiologos, Akraifnia, Vagia, Plataies, Thisvi, Thespies, Levadia Municipal Stadium, Elaea, Tegyra, Boeotian. Excerpt: The Battle of Plataea (Greek: , Mach t n Platai n) was the final land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It took place in 479 BC near the city of Plataea in Boeotia, and was fought between an alliance of the Greek city-states, including Sparta, Athens, Corinth and Megara, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I. The previous year, the Persian invasion force, led by the Persian king in person, had scored victories at the Battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium, and conquered Thessaly, Boeotia and Attica. However, at the ensuing Battle of Salamis, the Allied Greek navy had won an unlikely victory, and therefore prevented the conquest of the Peloponnesus. Xerxes then retreated with much of his army, leaving his general Mardonius to finish off the Greeks the following year. In the summer of 479 BC, the Greeks assembled a huge army (by contemporary standards), and marched out of the ...
