Archaic Age (700 – 480 B.C.)

and became satellite states of his empire. Both islands however refused to take part in the Persian war against the rest of Greece which was still liberated. After the defeat of the Persians in 480 B.C. at the naval battle of Salamina and the total destruction of the Persian fleet at the Mykalis pass between the island of Samos and Asia Minor (479B.C.) the Kalymnians expelled the Persian guards from their shores and thus rid themselves of the Persian yoke.
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