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Thermopylae
In the year 480 B.C. in this sacred place called THERMOPYLES was carrying out the most astonishing and unequal battle between few Greeks and a million of Persians. This battle is a landmark in the World's History. Three hundred Spartans and seven hundred Thespians under the order of Leonidas, king of Sparta, decided to fight against the Persians and win or die defending the freedom of their country. According to the historian Herodotus, the Persian army consisted of about one million seven hundred thousand soldiers who were under the command of king Xerxes.
The Persians asked the defenders to give their arms up, but Leonidas replied to them with the heroic phrase COME AND GET THEM. This phase has been, and will always be, a bright example for the generations to come, of one's doing his duty for his country.
The Persian camp was between the rivers Melas and Asopos. In ancient times the difficulty accessible path had three gates. The Phokian Wall behind which the small Greek camp was settled, protected the second gate. The Persians invade and reach the second gate. However, they are crushed by the Greeks after a tough and deadly battle, which lasted two days. On the third day of the battle, a Greek traitor called Ephialtes, led the special forces of Hydrnes through the path of Anopaia to the rear of the Greek troops. Leonidas confronted the main volume of Persina troops in the widest part of the pass. After a desperate fight, the Spartan leader died. The rest of the Greeks who had escaped death defeating themselves, retreated to the hill of Kolonos. There, all of them fell fighting bravely. Persian arrowheads are found in hundrend's on Kolonos hill.
During the 1st century A.D., the philosopher Apollonios Tyanefs visited Thermopyles. Someone asked him which wa the highest mountain in the world. He answered "Kolonos is the highest mountain in the world because on this mountain the law keeping and the noble self-sacrifice have put up a monument, which has its base on the earth and reaches the stars".
On Kolonos an epitaph was placed to honor the dead soldiers. The epitaph has the following message engraved on: "You stranger go to the Lakaidemonians and let them know that we lie here, faithful to their laws".
