The war lasted 499-449 BCE.

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It arrived too late for the battle of Marathon in 490 BCE, but provided major contingents to, and led, the Greek naval and ground forces at the battles of Salamis and Plataia in 480 and 479 BCE.

Afterwards it proposed evacuating the Greek cities in Asia Minor within the Persian Empire back to Greece to avoid further clashes (great foersight – this was actually done in 1923 CE after World War I) but Athens persuaded them to unite under its leadership to continue war.

Sparta thereafter withdrew from the war and looked to its own internal stability.

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