Plataea and Mycale have great significance in ancient history as the battles that decisively ended the second Persian invasion of Greece in 479 BC, th

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Plataea and Mycale have great significance in ancient history as the battles that decisively ended the second Persian invasion of Greece in 479 BC, thereby swinging the balance of the Greco-Persian Wars in favour of the Greeks. Plataea was destroyed in the Peloponnesian War by Thebes and Sparta in 427 BC and rebuilt in 386 BC.

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