Both were in a coalition of southern Greek city-states whichdefeated a Persian invasion 480-479 BCE. Sparta led the alliance atthe start, but it left it to Athens in the second half of the50-year war in which there were dozens of sea and land battles.After too many losses, the Persians agreed to peace and left theGreek cities to go back to their usual fighting each other.

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