Thermopylae

Meaning

Name

●

A

the east-central

of Greece

to the Maliakos Gulf,

of Athens. Its

is

from its

hot sulphur springs

. It was the

of the Battle of Thermopylae, at which the Spartan King Leonidas

off, for a time, the Persian

of Xerxes.

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