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Marathon
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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A village, 22 m. NE. of Athens, on the sea border of a plain where the Greeks under Miltiades on a world-famous occasion defeated the Persians under Darius in 480 B.C.; the plain on which the battle was fought extends between mountains on the W. and the sea on the E.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Marathon'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/m/marathon.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Marathon'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/m/marathon.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
