Spartan biography

City-state in ancient Greece

This article is about the ancient city-state.

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For modern-day Sparta, see Sparta, Laconia. For other uses, see Sparta (disambiguation).

"Spartan" redirects here. For other uses, see Spartan (disambiguation). For the mythical people associated with Ares, see Spartoi.

"Lacedaemon" redirects here. For the king, see Lacedaemon (mythology).

Sparta^[1] was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece.

In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (Λακεδαίμων, Lakedaímōn), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement in the valley of Evrotas river in Laconia, in southeastern Peloponnese.

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Around 650 BC, it rose to become the dominant military land-power in ancient Greece.

Given its military pre-eminence, Sparta was recognized as the leading force of the unified Greek military during the Greco-Persian Wars, in rivalry with the rising naval power of Athens. Sparta was the principal enemy of Athens during the P Spartan race - Wikipedie MUNAN