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12 hours ago · Thermopylae is one of the most famous battles in European ancient history, repeatedly referenced in ancient, recent, and contemporary culture. [citation needed] In Western culture at least, it is the Greeks who are lauded for their performance in battle. [134]
- Battle of Thermopylae in Popular Culture
Leonidas at Thermopylae, 1814 painting by Jacques-Louis...
- Battle of Thermopylae (Disambiguation)
The Battle of Thermopylae was a battle fought in 480 BC...
- Kolonos Hill
The hill is best known as the site of the final stand of the...
- Ephialtes of Trachis
Ephialtes (/ ˌ ɛ f i ˈ æ l t iː z /; Greek: Ἐφιάλτης,...
- Battle of Mycale
The Battle of Mycale (Ancient Greek: Μάχη τῆς Μυκάλης; Machē...
- Battle of Salamis
The Battle of Salamis (/ ˈ s æ l ə m ɪ s / SAL-ə-miss) was a...
- Battle of Marathon
The Battle of Marathon took place in 490 BC during the first...
- Hoplites
A Greek hoplite. Hoplites (/ ˈ h ɒ p l aɪ t s / HOP-lytes)...
- List of Last Stands
An illustration of the Battle of Thermopylae by John Steeple...
- Demophilus of Thespiae
Later, the Thespians fought against the Persian army at the...
- Battle of Thermopylae in Popular Culture
12 hours ago · Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...
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- Signed Spanish (using signs of the local language)
12 hours ago · Canaan (/ ˈ k eɪ n ən /; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 – KNʿN; Hebrew: כְּנַעַן – Kənáʿan, in pausa כְּנָעַן – Kənāʿan; Biblical Greek: Χανααν – Khanaan; Arabic: كَنْعَانُ – Kan‘ān) was a Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC.
12 hours ago · e. Biblical literalist chronology is the attempt to correlate the historical dates used in the Bible with the chronology of actual events, typically starting with creation in Genesis 1:1. [1] Some of the better-known calculations include Archbishop James Ussher, who placed it in 4004 BC, Isaac Newton in 4000 BC (both off the Masoretic Hebrew ...
12 hours ago · The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting from approximately 3300 BC to 1200 BC. It is characterized by the use of bronze, the use of writing in some areas, and other features of early urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second principal period of the three-age system proposed in 1836 by Christian Jürgensen Thomsen for classifying and ...
12 hours ago · For most of its history, China was organized into various dynastic states under the rule of hereditary monarchs.Beginning with the establishment of dynastic rule by Yu the Great c. 2070 BC, and ending with the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor in AD 1912, Chinese historiography came to organize itself around the succession of monarchical dynasties.
12 hours ago · The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( Spanish: Partido Socialista Obrero Español [paɾˈtiðo soθjaˈlista oˈβɾeɾo espaˈɲol] ⓘ; abbr.PSOE [peˈsoe] ⓘ) is a social-democratic [2] [10] political party in Spain. The PSOE has been in government longer than any other political party in modern democratic Spain: from 1982 to 1996 under ...
