Salamis Map Ancient Greece. Plan of the Battle of Salamis Art Source International The island lies in the Saronikós Gulf of the Aegean Sea, west of the city of Piraeus Battle of Salamis, (480 bc), battle in the Greco-Persian Wars in which a Greek fleet defeated much larger Persian naval forces in the straits at Salamis, between the island of Salamis and the Athenian port-city of Piraeus.By 480 the Persian king Xerxes and his army had overrun much of Greece, and his navy of about 800 galleys bottled up the smaller Greek fleet of about 370 triremes in the.
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The town is a port on the west coast of the island The Battle of Salamis (/ ˈ s æ l ə m ɪ s / SAL-ə-miss) was a naval battle fought in 480 BC, between an alliance of Greek city-states under Themistocles, and the Achaemenid Empire under King Xerxes.It resulted in a victory for the outnumbered Greeks
Battle of Salamis Ancient Greece Persian Invasion Naval Battle 1805 engraved map (1805) Map
D., A History of Greece (London, : The Macmillan Company, 1912) 132 Map Credit: The Private Collection of Roy Winkelman. D., A History of Greece (London, : The Macmillan Company, 1912) 132 Map Credit: The Private Collection of Roy Winkelman. The Greeks had recently lost the Battle of Thermopylae and drawn the naval Battle at Artemision, both in August 480 BCE, as King Xerxes I (r
Map of Salamis and the coast of Attica, showing the disposition of the ships in the battle of. The battle was fought in the straits between the mainland and Salamis, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens, and marked the high point. The town is a port on the west coast of the island
FileBattle of Thermopylae and movements to Salamis and Plataea mapel.svg Wikimedia Commons. Map of the Battle of Marathon, 490 BC (Creasy) Map of the Battle of Marathon, 490 BC - Initial. Description: A map showing the region around Salamis in ancient times