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Peloponnesian War
–noun
| a war between Athens and Sparta, 431–404 b.c., that resulted in the transfer of hegemony in Greece from Athens to Sparta. |
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Peloponnesian War
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| peloponnesian war | |
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| a war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta; 431-404 BC |
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Peloponnesian War [(pel-uh-puh-nee-zhuhn, pel-uh-puh-nee-shuhn)]
A long war between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta in the fifth century b.c. Sparta won the war.
Note: The historian Thucydides fought in the Peloponnesian War and later wrote a remarkable history about it.
[Chapter:] World History to 1550
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