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Pausanias, nephew of the Spartan leader of the Battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas, was a general in the Persian Wars. He was responsible for the Greek victory over Mardonius at the Battle of Plataea in 479 B.C.

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Pausanias was a Spartan general and was also the name of a 2nd century A.D. geographer.

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