The narrow pass where 9000 Greek hoplites under the leadership of Spartan king Leonidas held a Persian army of over 150,000 men for two days was
A) Boeotia.
B) Plataea.
C) Marathon.
D) Salamis.
E) Thermopylae.
E
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