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| | Greece |
 | | Greek-speaking Achaeans invaded the Greek peninsula from central Europe circa 2000 BC, displacing and enslaving the Pelasgians (aboriginal non-Greek inhabitants of Greece, Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands). |
 | | This led to the Persian Wars (499-449 BC), in which Persia invaded European Greece and was defeated at Marathon (490 BC) and Plataea (479 BC), the Persian fleet being crushed at Salamis (480 BC). |
 | | Greece continued to absorb Turkish land Thessaly (1878), Crete, Macedonia, Epirus and most of the Turkish Islands after the Balkan Wars (1912-13), and Thrace and part of northwestern Asia Minor after the First World War, in which Greece after the deposition (1917) of pro-German King Constantine I, had fought on the Allied aide. |
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