The Peace of Callias
449 BCE* · Event
Half a century after Sardis, Athens and Persia reputedly agree terms: the Great King's fleets to stay out of the Aegean, the Ionian cities to stay free. Ancient authors doubted the treaty existed and moderns still argue — but the fighting, at least, stops here.
On these timelines: Greco-Persian Wars, Ancient Greece, Master, Persia and Iran
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