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Greeks who chose to resist (the 'Allies') were defeated in the twin simultaneous battles of Thermopylae on land and Artemisium at sea. All of Greece except the Peloponnesus thus having fallen into Persian hands, the Persians then sought to destroy the Allied navy once and for all but suffered a decisive defeat at the Battle of Salamis. The following year, 479 BC, the Allies

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