Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog The Battle of Salamis

Salamis Map Ancient Greece. 1785 Du Bocage Antique Map of The Battle of Salamis, Saronic Gulf Athe Classical Images 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 Battle of Salamis was a naval battle between Greek and Persian forces in the Saronic Gulf, Greece in September 480 BCE

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. 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.

1892 Print Map Ancient Greece Battle Salamis Cephis Campus Thriasius Eleusis War eBay

Description: A map showing the region around Salamis in ancient times 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 The town is a port on the west coast of the island

Battle of Salamis Ancient Warfare. Map of the Battle of Marathon, 490 BC (Creasy) Map of the Battle of Marathon, 490 BC - Initial. The island lies in the Saronikós Gulf of the Aegean Sea, west of the city of Piraeus

Ancient Salamis Map. Salamis, island, town, and dímos (municipality), Attica (Modern Greek: Attikí) periféreia (region), eastern Greece Salamis (/ ˈ s æ l ə m ɪ s / SAL-ə-miss; Ancient Greek and Katharevousa: Σαλαμίς, romanized: Salamís) [3] or Salamina (Modern Greek: Σαλαμίνα, romanized: Salamína) is the largest Greek island in the Saronic Gulf, about two kilometres (one nautical mile) from the coast of Athens' port of Piraeus and about 16 km (8 + 1 ⁄ 2 nmi) west of Athens center.