Marathon, a village, 22 m. NE. of Athens, on the sea border of a plain where the Greeks under Miltiades on a world-famous occasion defeated the Persians under Darius in 480 B.C.; the plain on which the battle was fought extends between mountains on the W. and the sea on the E.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Marat, Jean Paul * Marburg