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  2. Greco-Persian Wars - Wikipedia

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    The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and 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 ...

  3. Roman–Persian Wars - Wikipedia

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    The Roman–Persian Wars, also called the Roman–Iranian Wars, took place between the Greco-Roman world and the Iranian world, beginning with the Roman Republic and the Parthian Empire in 54 BC [1] and ending with the Roman Empire (including the Byzantine Empire) and the Sasanian Empire in 628 AD. While the conflict between the two ...

  4. Muslim conquest of Persia - Wikipedia

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    Shortly afterwards, Persia was further devastated by the Sasanian Interregnum, a large-scale civil war that began in 628 and resulted in the government's decentralization by 632. Amidst Persia's turmoil, the first Rashidun invasion of Sasanian territory took place in 633, when the Rashidun army conquered parts of Asoristan , which was the ...

  5. List of conflicts in Europe - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of conflicts in Europe ordered chronologically, including wars between European states, civil wars within European states, wars between a European state and a non-European state that took place within Europe, militarized interstate disputes, and global conflicts in which Europe was a theatre of war.

  6. Second Persian invasion of Greece - Wikipedia

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    The second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece. The invasion was a direct, if delayed, response to the defeat of the first Persian invasion of Greece (492–490 BC) at the Battle of Marathon, which ended Darius I's attempts to subjugate Greece.

  7. First Persian invasion of Greece - Wikipedia

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    The first Persian invasion of Greece is a historical event having occurred from 492 BC to 490 BC, as part of the Greco-Persian Wars. It ended with a decisive Athenian-led victory over the Achaemenid Empire during the Battle of Marathon.

  8. List of conflicts between Romans and Persians - Wikipedia

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    Lazic War: Byzantine Empire: Sasanian Empire: Sasanian victory: Fifty–Year Peace Treaty: 572–591 CE: Byzantine–Sasanian War of 572–591: Byzantine Empire: Sasanian Empire: Byzantine victory: Khosrow II is restored to the Sasanian throne, Byzantine Empire gets most of Persian Armenia and the western half of Iberia: 602–628 CE: Byzantine ...

  9. Ionian Revolt - Wikipedia

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    The Ionian Revolt was primarily of significance as the opening chapter in, and causative agent of, the Greco-Persian Wars, which included the two invasions of Greece and the famous battles of Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis. [2] For the Ionian cities themselves, the revolt ended in failure, and substantial losses, both material and economic.