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Under the Kanun, even blood enemies who would kill each other under any other circumstances may not attack anyone in his home or be attacked. The stricture masks many major difficulties and made the Serbian atrocities against Albanians in Kosovo even more offensive to Albanians who follow the Kanun.


Xerxes whose troops outnumbered the Spartans many to one send a message demanding that the Spartans under Leonidas lay down their arms. With the refusal the Persians attacked and eventually killed all the 300 Spartans who had fought so brilliantly that they had killed 20,000 Persians. The battle allowed the Greeks to mobilize other troops and totally demoralized the Persians.