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Cleombrotus

600 BC - 480 BC

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Cleombrotus (Greek: Κλεόμβροτος, Kleómbrotos), regent of Sparta between 480 and 479 BC. He was a member of the Agiad dynasty, the son of Anaxandridas II and the brother of Cleomenes I, Dorieus and of Leonidas I. When the latter died, he became the tutor of his nephew Pleistarchus, son of Leonidas, and leader of the Greek infantry at the beginning of the second phase of the Greco-Persian Wars. Cleombrotus was in command of the Spartan and Peloponnesian troops who built the wall across the Isthmus of Corinth that was intended to keep the Persian army out of the Peloponnese. He died soon after returning to Sparta from the Isthmus. He was the father of Pausanias and the Spartan general Nicomedes. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cleombrotus is the 801st most popular military personnel (down from 777th in 2019), the 386th most popular biography from Greece (down from 379th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Greek Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Cleombrotus ranks 801 out of 2,058. Before her are Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Hans von Salmuth, Emiliano Mercado del Toro, John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan, and Soemu Toyoda. After her are Hermann Priess, Jahangir Mirza, Hiroshi Ōshima, Ernst Linder, Wilhelm Souchon, and Otto Kittel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 600 BC, Cleombrotus ranks 52. Before her are Agrippa Menenius Lanatus, Hipponax, Scylax of Caryanda, Callimachus, Tullia Minor, and Nebuchadnezzar III. After her are Andokides painter, Democedes, Nebuchadnezzar IV, Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis, Artabazos I of Phrygia, and Eurybiades. Among people deceased in 480 BC, Cleombrotus ranks 5. Before her are Leonidas I, Mahapajapati Gotami, Ephialtes of Trachis, and Appius Claudius Sabinus Regillensis. After her are Onomacritus, and Hamilcar I of Carthage.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Cleombrotus ranks 386 out of 1,024. Before her are Philip I of Macedon (-700), Konstantinos Mitsotakis (1918), Theophano of Athens (701), Iphicrates (-415), Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark (1913), and Alexandros Panagoulis (1939). After her are Dionysius of Corinth (150), Campaspe (-400), Demosthenes (-412), Archidamus III (-350), Coroebus of Elis (-800), and Aristobulus of Cassandreia (-375).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Greece

Among military personnels born in Greece, Cleombrotus ranks 28. Before her are Theodoros Kolokotronis (1770), Müezzinzade Ali Pasha (null), Peucestas (-390), Conon (-401), Callimachus (-600), and Iphicrates (-415). After her are Demosthenes (-412), Markos Botsaris (1790), Peithon (-355), Ian Hamilton (1853), Dimitrios Ioannidis (1923), and Georgios Karaiskakis (1780).

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