Hot Gates

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Hot Gates is an alternative name for Thermopylae, the narrow coastal pass in Greece famed as the site of the legendary last stand of King Leonidas and his Spartan-led forces against the Persian army in 480 BC.

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instanceOf battle site
geographical location
mountain pass
alternateName Thermopylae NERFINISHED
associatedWithPeople Spartans NERFINISHED
Thebans NERFINISHED
Thespians NERFINISHED
attackingCommander Xerxes I of Persia NERFINISHED
battleBelligerent Achaemenid Persian Empire NERFINISHED
Greek city-states
battleDate 480 BC
commemoratedBy Leonidas monument NERFINISHED
epitaph of Simonides of Ceos
connectedTo Athens–Thessaloniki highway NERFINISHED
Greek National Road 1 NERFINISHED
culturalSignificance symbol of heroic last stand
defendingCommander King Leonidas I of Sparta NERFINISHED
etymologyFrom Greek Thermopylae (Thermopylai) NERFINISHED
famousFor Battle of Thermopylae NERFINISHED
hasGeographicalFeature hot sulfur springs
mountainous terrain
narrow coastal pass
hasHotSprings yes
hasNearbySettlement Thermopylae village NERFINISHED
historicalEra Classical Greece NERFINISHED
locatedInCountry Greece NERFINISHED
locatedInPeriphery Phthiotis NERFINISHED
locatedInRegion Central Greece NERFINISHED
locatedNear Lamia NERFINISHED
modernUse historical battlefield site
tourist attraction
nameLanguage English
nameMeaning hot gates
nearBodyOfWater Malian Gulf NERFINISHED
notableEvent Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) NERFINISHED
partOfCampaign Second Persian invasion of Greece NERFINISHED
referencedInWork Herodotus' Histories NERFINISHED
various modern novels and films about the 300 Spartans
strategicImportance narrow choke point controlling access between northern and southern Greece

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Thermopylae hasAlternativeName Hot Gates