battle by the athenians and their allies was opposed by the powerful persian empire, led by shahin shah daryamssed the sea on 600 ships and landed on ethics. this is the peninsula of central greece where athens is located, both troops met on the plain of the city. the marathon of the persians was no less than 25,000 greeks in total 10. but these were trained heavily armed hoplite warriors. they went into battle with a close formation in several lines of the famous invulnerable phalanx, and the metal commander of the miltians also commanded. as a result, the greeks defeated the conquerors and they fled to their ships . he ran without stopping, 40. to announce the victory, and after that he fell dead , it was in memory of this feat that the concepts of marathon running and marathon distance arose on september 12 , 1903 for the first time in history an operation to extract a bullet from the heart was performed by a russian estonian surgeon. werner tsede von manti-fey in the city of tartum, teams and filio brought a young girl, maria plavnson. she was shot with a revolver during the gang attack, s