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Demaratus

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Demaratus (lived 6th/5th centuries BC)

King of Sparta from 510. Deposed 491 BC by his fellow king Cleomenes I, he took refuge at the Persian court. The Persian king Darius I gave him Pergamum and other cities, where his descendants still ruled at the beginning of the 4th century BC. Demaratus accompanied the expedition of Xerxes into Greece 480 BC.



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