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• a city-state in ancient Greece.
• Between c. 650 and 362 BC it was the dominant military power in the region
• Between 431-404 BC, it was the principal enemy of Athens during the Peloponnesian War.[
• By the year 362 BC, Sparta's role as the dominant military power in Greece was over, but the so-called Spartan myth continues to fascinate Western culture
• The majority of inhabitants of Sparta were helots who, every autumn during the Crypteia, could be killed by a Spartan citizen without fear of blood or guilt.
• What is widely known today as ancient Sparta refers to state and culture that were formed in Sparta by the Dorian Greeks, some eighty years after the Trojan War
• In the Second Messenian War, Sparta established itself as a local power in Peloponnesus and the rest of Greece.
• In 480 BC a small force of Spartans, Thespians, and Thebans led by King Leonidas
• made a legendary last stand at the Battle of Thermopylae against the massive Persian army,......

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