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Where did the Athenians defeat the Persian invasion army in 490 BC?
The Battle of Marathon (12 September 490 BC) was the decisive Athenian-led victory over the first Persian invasion under King Darius I. The Athenian hoplite phalanx defeated a Persian army roughly twice its size. The legendary runner Pheidippides supposedly ran 26 miles from the battlefield to Athens to announce the victory. Salamis (480 BC) and Plataea (479 BC) were the decisive victories of the second Persian invasion.
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