Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Battle of Plataea and Macedonia (ancient kingdom)

Shortcuts: Differences, Similarities, Jaccard Similarity Coefficient, References.

Difference between Battle of Plataea and Macedonia (ancient kingdom)

Battle of Plataea vs. Macedonia (ancient kingdom)

The Battle of Plataea was the final land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece. Macedonia or Macedon (Μακεδονία, Makedonía) was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece.

Similarities between Battle of Plataea and Macedonia (ancient kingdom)

Battle of Plataea and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) have 44 things in common (in Unionpedia): Achaemenid Empire, Aeschylus, Alexander I of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Anatolia, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Arcadia, Athens, Battle of Salamis, Boeotia, Byzantium, Chalcis, Corinth, Dardanelles, Darius I, Delian League, Delphi, Diodorus Siculus, Gallipoli, Greco-Persian Wars, Greece, Herodotus, History of Athens, Hoplite, Ionian Revolt, Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Mardonius, Megara, Olynthus, ..., Peloponnese, Phalanx, Plutarch, Potidaea, Samos, Second Persian invasion of Greece, Sparta, Thebes, Greece, Thermopylae, Thessaly, Thrace, Thucydides, Tufts University, Xerxes I. Expand index (14 more) »

Achaemenid Empire

The Achaemenid Empire, also called the First Persian Empire, was an empire based in Western Asia, founded by Cyrus the Great.

Achaemenid Empire and Battle of Plataea · Achaemenid Empire and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Aeschylus

Aeschylus (Αἰσχύλος Aiskhulos;; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian.

Aeschylus and Battle of Plataea · Aeschylus and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Alexander I of Macedon

Alexander I of Macedon (Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μακεδών), known with the title Philhellene (Greek: φιλέλλην, "lover of the Greeks"), was the ruler of the ancient Kingdom of Macedon from c. 498 BC until his death in 454 BC.

Alexander I of Macedon and Battle of Plataea · Alexander I of Macedon and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Alexander the Great

Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (Aléxandros ho Mégas), was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.

Alexander the Great and Battle of Plataea · Alexander the Great and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Anatolia

Anatolia (Modern Greek: Ανατολία Anatolía, from Ἀνατολή Anatolḗ,; "east" or "rise"), also known as Asia Minor (Medieval and Modern Greek: Μικρά Ἀσία Mikrá Asía, "small Asia"), Asian Turkey, the Anatolian peninsula, or the Anatolian plateau, is the westernmost protrusion of Asia, which makes up the majority of modern-day Turkey.

Anatolia and Battle of Plataea · Anatolia and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 13th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (AD 600).

Ancient Greece and Battle of Plataea · Ancient Greece and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

Ancient Rome and Battle of Plataea · Ancient Rome and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Arcadia

Arcadia (Αρκαδία, Arkadía) is one of the regional units of Greece.

Arcadia and Battle of Plataea · Arcadia and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Athens

Athens (Αθήνα, Athína; Ἀθῆναι, Athênai) is the capital and largest city of Greece.

Athens and Battle of Plataea · Athens and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Battle of Salamis

The Battle of Salamis (Ναυμαχία τῆς Σαλαμῖνος, Naumachia tēs Salaminos) was a naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states under Themistocles and the Persian Empire under King Xerxes in 480 BC which resulted in a decisive victory for the outnumbered Greeks.

Battle of Plataea and Battle of Salamis · Battle of Salamis and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Boeotia

Boeotia, sometimes alternatively Latinised as Boiotia, or Beotia (Βοιωτία,,; modern transliteration Voiotía, also Viotía, formerly Cadmeis), is one of the regional units of Greece.

Battle of Plataea and Boeotia · Boeotia and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Byzantium

Byzantium or Byzantion (Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον, Byzántion) was an ancient Greek colony in early antiquity that later became Constantinople, and later Istanbul.

Battle of Plataea and Byzantium · Byzantium and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Chalcis

Chalcis (Ancient Greek & Katharevousa: Χαλκίς, Chalkís) or Chalkida (Modern Χαλκίδα) is the chief town of the island of Euboea in Greece, situated on the Euripus Strait at its narrowest point.

Battle of Plataea and Chalcis · Chalcis and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Corinth

Corinth (Κόρινθος, Kórinthos) is an ancient city and former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, which is located in south-central Greece.

Battle of Plataea and Corinth · Corinth and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Dardanelles

The Dardanelles (Çanakkale Boğazı, translit), also known from Classical Antiquity as the Hellespont (Ἑλλήσποντος, Hellespontos, literally "Sea of Helle"), is a narrow, natural strait and internationally-significant waterway in northwestern Turkey that forms part of the continental boundary between Europe and Asia, and separates Asian Turkey from European Turkey.

Battle of Plataea and Dardanelles · Dardanelles and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Darius I

Darius I (Old Persian: Dārayava(h)uš, New Persian: rtl Dāryuš;; c. 550–486 BCE) was the fourth king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire.

Battle of Plataea and Darius I · Darius I and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Delian League

The Delian League, founded in 478 BC, was an association of Greek city-states, with the amount of members numbering between 150 to 330under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece.

Battle of Plataea and Delian League · Delian League and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Delphi

Delphi is famous as the ancient sanctuary that grew rich as the seat of Pythia, the oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world.

Battle of Plataea and Delphi · Delphi and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus (Διόδωρος Σικελιώτης Diodoros Sikeliotes) (1st century BC) or Diodorus of Sicily was a Greek historian.

Battle of Plataea and Diodorus Siculus · Diodorus Siculus and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Gallipoli

The Gallipoli peninsula (Gelibolu Yarımadası; Χερσόνησος της Καλλίπολης, Chersónisos tis Kallípolis) is located in the southern part of East Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles strait to the east.

Battle of Plataea and Gallipoli · Gallipoli and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Greco-Persian Wars

The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC.

Battle of Plataea and Greco-Persian Wars · Greco-Persian Wars and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Greece

No description.

Battle of Plataea and Greece · Greece and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Herodotus

Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος, Hêródotos) was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC (484– 425 BC), a contemporary of Thucydides, Socrates, and Euripides.

Battle of Plataea and Herodotus · Herodotus and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

History of Athens

Athens is one of the oldest named cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for at least 5000 years.

Battle of Plataea and History of Athens · History of Athens and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Hoplite

Hoplites were citizen-soldiers of Ancient Greek city-states who were primarily armed with spears and shields.

Battle of Plataea and Hoplite · Hoplite and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Ionian Revolt

The Ionian Revolt, and associated revolts in Aeolis, Doris, Cyprus and Caria, were military rebellions by several Greek regions of Asia Minor against Persian rule, lasting from 499 BC to 493 BC.

Battle of Plataea and Ionian Revolt · Ionian Revolt and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Macedonia (ancient kingdom)

Macedonia or Macedon (Μακεδονία, Makedonía) was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece.

Battle of Plataea and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) · See more »

Mardonius

Mardonius (Μαρδόνιος Mardonios, Old Persian: Marduniya, literally: "the mild one"; died 479 BC) was a leading Persian military commander during the Persian Wars with Greece in the early 5th century BC who died at the Battle of Plataea.

Battle of Plataea and Mardonius · Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and Mardonius · See more »

Megara

Megara (Μέγαρα) is a historic town and a municipality in West Attica, Greece.

Battle of Plataea and Megara · Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and Megara · See more »

Olynthus

Olynthus (Ὄλυνθος Olynthos, named for the ὄλυνθος olunthos, "the fruit of the wild fig tree") was an ancient city of Chalcidice, built mostly on two flat-topped hills 30–40m in height, in a fertile plain at the head of the Gulf of Torone, near the neck of the peninsula of Pallene, about 2.5 kilometers from the sea, and about 60 stadia (c. 9–10 kilometers) from Poteidaea.

Battle of Plataea and Olynthus · Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and Olynthus · See more »

Peloponnese

The Peloponnese or Peloponnesus (Πελοπόννησος, Peloponnisos) is a peninsula and geographic region in southern Greece.

Battle of Plataea and Peloponnese · Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and Peloponnese · See more »

Phalanx

The phalanx (φάλαγξ; plural phalanxes or phalanges, φάλαγγες, phalanges) was a rectangular mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry armed with spears, pikes, sarissas, or similar weapons.

Battle of Plataea and Phalanx · Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and Phalanx · See more »

Plutarch

Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarkhos,; c. CE 46 – CE 120), later named, upon becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, (Λούκιος Μέστριος Πλούταρχος) was a Greek biographer and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia.

Battle of Plataea and Plutarch · Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and Plutarch · See more »

Potidaea

Potidaea (Ποτίδαια, Potidaia) was a colony founded by the Corinthians around 600 BC in the narrowest point of the peninsula of Pallene, the westernmost of three peninsulas at the southern end of Chalcidice in northern Greece.

Battle of Plataea and Potidaea · Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and Potidaea · See more »

Samos

Samos (Σάμος) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of Asia Minor, from which it is separated by the -wide Mycale Strait.

Battle of Plataea and Samos · Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and Samos · See more »

Second Persian invasion of Greece

The second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece.

Battle of Plataea and Second Persian invasion of Greece · Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and Second Persian invasion of Greece · See more »

Sparta

Sparta (Doric Greek: Σπάρτα, Spártā; Attic Greek: Σπάρτη, Spártē) was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece.

Battle of Plataea and Sparta · Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and Sparta · See more »

Thebes, Greece

Thebes (Θῆβαι, Thēbai,;. Θήβα, Thíva) is a city in Boeotia, central Greece.

Battle of Plataea and Thebes, Greece · Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and Thebes, Greece · See more »

Thermopylae

Thermopylae (Ancient and Katharevousa Greek: Θερμοπύλαι, Demotic: Θερμοπύλες: "hot gates") is a place in Greece where a narrow coastal passage existed in antiquity.

Battle of Plataea and Thermopylae · Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and Thermopylae · See more »

Thessaly

Thessaly (Θεσσαλία, Thessalía; ancient Thessalian: Πετθαλία, Petthalía) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name.

Battle of Plataea and Thessaly · Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and Thessaly · See more »

Thrace

Thrace (Modern Θράκη, Thráki; Тракия, Trakiya; Trakya) is a geographical and historical area in southeast Europe, now split between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, which is bounded by the Balkan Mountains to the north, the Aegean Sea to the south and the Black Sea to the east.

Battle of Plataea and Thrace · Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and Thrace · See more »

Thucydides

Thucydides (Θουκυδίδης,, Ancient Attic:; BC) was an Athenian historian and general.

Battle of Plataea and Thucydides · Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and Thucydides · See more »

Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university incorporated in the municipality of Medford, Massachusetts, United States.

Battle of Plataea and Tufts University · Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and Tufts University · See more »

Xerxes I

Xerxes I (𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 x-š-y-a-r-š-a Xšayaṛša "ruling over heroes", Greek Ξέρξης; 519–465 BC), called Xerxes the Great, was the fourth king of kings of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia.

Battle of Plataea and Xerxes I · Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and Xerxes I · See more »

The list above answers the following questions

Battle of Plataea and Macedonia (ancient kingdom) Comparison

Battle of Plataea has 115 relations, while Macedonia (ancient kingdom) has 993. As they have in common 44, the Jaccard index is 3.97% = 44 / (115 + 993).

References

This article shows the relationship between Battle of Plataea and Macedonia (ancient kingdom). To access each article from which the information was extracted, please visit:

Hey! We are on Facebook now! »