Usually means: Battle site, Greeks versus Persians.
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  1. Thermopylae: Merriam-Webster
  2. Thermopylae: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Thermopylae: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. Thermopylae: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  11. Thermopylae (Hadzi), Thermopylae (clipper), Thermopylae (disambiguation), Thermopylae: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Thermopylae)

noun:  A narrow pass on the east-central coast of Greece adjacent to the Maliakos Gulf, northwest of Athens. Its name is derived from its hot sulphur springs. It was the site of the Battle of Thermopylae, at which the Spartan King Leonidas stood off, for a time, the Persian armies of Xerxes.

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