Regions

History by place. A story can belong to several regions.

Greece & the Aegean

Mainland Greece, the islands and the coast of Asia Minor

499 – 449 BC The Persian Wars Not one war but a series of them: a revolt in Ionia, two Persian invasions of Greece, and thirty years of Greek counterattacks. Thermopylae, Marathon and Salamis all belong to this story, but to different chapters of it.

Persia & the Orient

Iran, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the lands east of the Mediterranean. “The Orient” is the older European name for these lands, used here as historians long used it.

499 – 449 BC The Persian Wars Not one war but a series of them: a revolt in Ionia, two Persian invasions of Greece, and thirty years of Greek counterattacks. Thermopylae, Marathon and Salamis all belong to this story, but to different chapters of it.

More regions appear here as new stories are published.