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How many Persians were at the battle of Thermopylae

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The pass at Thermopylae was thus opened to the Persian army, according to Herodotus, at the cost to the Persians of up to 20,000 fatalities.

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Herodotus claims in his book of the Persian Wars that about 5,283,220 Persian soldiers fought.

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