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Definition of: Thermopylae
(thər·mop′ə·lē)
A narrow mountain pass in Greece; scene of a battle, 480 B.C., in which the Spartans under the command of Leonidas held off the Persians under Xerxes and finally died to the last man rather than yield.
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