Event Persian counter-offensive agains the rebel Poleis

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Were a series of military offensives by the Achaemenids to reconquere rebel territories in Asia Minor.

Chronology

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  • January 492 BC: The Gallipoli Peninsula was abandoned to the Persians in 493 BC.
  • January 492 BC: The Persian army then re-conquered the settlements on the Asian side of the Propontis, while the Persian fleet sailed up the European coast of the Hellespont, taking each settlement in turn. With all of Asia Minor now firmly returned to Persian rule, the revolt was finally over.
  • January 492 BC: In -493 BC, the Persian fleet and army, led by the Persian king Darius I, wintered at Miletus before launching a campaign to suppress the Ionian Revolt. The islands of Chios, Lesbos, and Tenedos were captured by the Persian forces as they sought to regain control of the region.
  • January 496 BC: The revolt in Cyprus was crashed.
  • January 492 BC: The Persian army then re-conquered the settlements on the Asian side of the Propontis, while the Persian fleet sailed up the European coast of the Hellespont, taking each settlement in turn. With all of Asia Minor now firmly returned to Persian rule, the revolt was finally over.
  • January 492 BC: In -493 BC, the Persian fleet and army, led by the Persian king Darius I, wintered at Miletus before launching a campaign to suppress the Ionian Revolt. The islands of Chios, Lesbos, and Tenedos were captured by the Persian forces as they sought to regain control of the region.
  • January 495 BC: Carian Campaign: Battle of the Labraunda.