What historic events transpired at Thermopylae?
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There in 480 BC, Leonidas with his Spartans and their allies lost a heroic battle to the Persians under Xerxes I (see Persian Wars ). At the pass in 279 BC, the Greeks held back the Gauls under Brennus , who ultimately broke through, and, in 191 BC, Antiochus III of Syria was defeated there by the Romans.
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