The Battle of Plataea, the final land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It took place in 479 BC near the city of Plataea in Boeotia in Central Greece, and was fought between an alliance of the Greek city-states (including Sparta, Athens, Corinth and Megara), and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I (allied with Boeotians, Thessalians, and Macedonians). After their victory at Plataea and Mycale the Greek allies took the offensive against the Persians, marking a new phase of the Greco-Persian Wars.

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Location: Plataea, Boeotia, Central Greece
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