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{{Infobox Military Conflict |
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|conflict=Siege of Doriskos |
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|partof=the ] |
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|date= ]'s? ] |
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|place= ], ] |
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|result=Decisive ] victory. |
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|territory=Persia loses total control of Europe. |
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|combatant1=] |
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|commander1= Unknown |
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|commander2= ] |
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|strength1= Unknown |
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|casualties1= Unkown |
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{{Campaignbox Greco-Persian Wars}} |
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In the '''Siege of Doriskos''', the ] attacked the retreating ] many times. Doriskos was known to have a Persian garrison there since ] invaded ]. After the second Persian invasion of ] failed. The ] were compeled to deplete all the Persian garrisons in ], but they themselves did not hold on to the places they took, as it was later given back to the Thracians. After many failed months in attempts, they succeeded.{{fact}} They starved the inhabitants by cutting of the food supplied by the king of Persia, and ] the commander at the fort, made a secret escape. {{fact}} This was one of the last Persian garrisons to remain in Europe before they were all destroyed. |
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==Account of Herodotus== |
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In VII.106 of his ], ] relates that ] entrusted the Persian fortress at Doriskos, on the coastal plains by the river ] in ], to Mascames at the time he amassed, reviewed and ] and fleet there in ], prior to his campaign in Greece. According to Herodotus, after Xerxes' failed campaign, unlike other Persian fortresses in Thrace, the fortress at Doriskos withstood prolonged Greek attempts to capture it. Its governors were rewarded with gifts from successive Persian kings, including ], the son of Xerxes.<ref>{{harvnb|Briant|2002|p=255}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Kuhrt|2007|p=290}}</ref> |
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==Notes== |
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==References== |
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*{{citation|title=The Greek Settlements in Thrace Until the Macedonian Conquest|first=Benjamin H.|last= Isaac|publisher=Brill|year= 1986| |
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id=ISBN 9004069216|pages=137-140}}. discussion of role of the τείχος Doriskos during and after the reign of Xerxes I. |
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*{{citation|title=The Athenians and Their Empire|first=Malcolm Francis|last=McGregor|publisher=UBC Press|year= 1987| |
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id=ISBN 0774802693|page=67}}. confirmation of the title and further details. |
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*{{citation|title=From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire|first=Pierre |last=Briant|authorlink=Pierre Briant|publisher=Eisenbrauns|year= 2002|id=ISBN 1575061201}} |
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*{{citation|title=The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources of the Achaemenid Period|first= |
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Amélie|last= Kuhrt|publisher=Routledge|year=2007|id=ISBN 0415436281}} |
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==External links== |
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