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    naval Battle of Salamis in 306 BC took place off Salamis, Cyprus between the fleets of Ptolemy I of Egypt and Antigonus I Monophthalmus, two of the Diadochi...
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  • (city), former municipality on Salamis Island Salamis Naval Base, a Greek naval base on Salamis Island Battle of Salamis, 480 BC, between allied Greeks and...
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  • The Battle of Salamis was a decisive naval battle between the Greek city-states and Persia in 480 BC at Salamis island off Athens, that stopped the second...
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    of Athens and after defeating Ptolemy I at the Battle of Salamis (306 BC) he gave his father the title of basileus ("king") over a land spanning from the...
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  • Year 306 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Tremulus and Arvina (or, less frequently...
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    the Battle of Salamis in late 480 BC. Wary of being trapped in Europe, Xerxes withdrew with much of his army to Asia, reportedly losing many of his troops...
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  • with the Battle of Amorgos (322 BC) and the Battle of Salamis (306 BC)—that provided the occasion for the erection of the statue of the Nike of Samothrace...
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  • Battle of Salamis in Cyprus may refer to two different battles: Battle of Salamis in Cyprus (450 BC) Battle of Salamis in Cyprus (306 BC) This disambiguation...
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    Salamis (Ancient Greek: Σαλαμίς; Greek: Σαλαμίνα; Turkish: Salamis) was an ancient Greek city-state on the east coast of Cyprus, at the mouth of the river...
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    Antigonid dynasty (category 306 BC)
    power after the Battle of Salamis in 306 BC and ruled much of Hellenistic Greece from 294 until their defeat at the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC (Third Macedonian...
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  • invasion of Greece (Greco-Persian Wars) Battle of Salamis – 480 BC – Second Persian invasion of Greece (Greco-Persian Wars) Achaemenid destruction of Athens...
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  • naval battles—along with the Battle of Salamis (306 BC) and the Battle of Cos (261/255 BC)—that provided the occasion for the erection of the statue of the...
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    the Battle of Salamis. The following year, the confederated Greeks went on the offensive, decisively defeating the Persian army at the Battle of Plataea...
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    of Darius III. In November 333 BC, King Darius III had lost the Battle of Issus to Alexander the Great, which resulted in the subsequent capture of his...
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    Persian fleet to battle in the straits of Salamis. However, as successful as this was, there was no need for the Persians to fight at Salamis to win the war;...
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    Corupedium Battle of Crannon Battle of Gabiene Battle of Gaza (312 BC) Battle of Ipsus Battle of Paraitacene Battle of Raphia Battle of Salamis (306 BC) Chremonidean...
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    The Battle of Ipsus (Ancient Greek: Ἱψός) was fought between some of the Diadochi (the successors of Alexander the Great) in 301 BC near the town of Ipsus...
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  • This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving ancient Greek city states and kingdoms, Magna Graecia, other...
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  • Channel 300: Rise of an Empire (2014) Battle of Plataea, Battle of Marathon, Battle of Artemisium, Battle of Salamis Sikandar (1941) Alexander the Great...
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  • the Battle of Citium (Larnaca, Cyprus). Evagoras flees to Salamis, where he manages to conclude a peace which allows him to remain nominally king of Salamis...
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    brother of Egypt's ruler, Ptolemy I Soter, at Salamis. Ptolemy Soter, coming to his brother's aid, is decisively defeated in the Battle of Salamis. The battle...
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    380 BCE, a Persian force besieged Salamis and Evagoras was forced to surrender. In the end, he remained king of Salamis until he was murdered in 374 BCE...
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  • the battle of Ipsus she fled from Cilicia (where she had awaited the issue of the campaign) with her son Demetrius to Salamis in Cyprus, 301 BC. Here...
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    known as the Battle of Salamis of 306 BC, that resulted in victory for Antigonid forces. Following the defeat of Ptolemaic navy at Salamis the Ptolemaic...
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    Sicilian Wars (category 4th-century BC conflicts)
    at the Battle of Himera, which was said to have occurred on the same day as the Battle of Salamis. Hamilcar was either killed during the battle or committed...
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  • to Demetrius Poliorcetes after the Battle of Salamis in 306 BC. Cyprus was regained by Ptolemy after the death of Demetrius Poliorcetes in 287, but there...
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  • Krentz, Peter, The Battle of Marathon (Yale Library of Military History), Yale Univ Press, (2010) p. 98 Grant, p. 23 Herodotus (440 BC). Histories. Arrian...
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  • Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Roman battles Sherman Storytelling:...
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    might have been of the greatest value to him in the campaigns to come. After defeating Ptolemy at the naval Battle of Salamis in 306 BC, Demetrius conquered...
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    of Macedon had the most powerful siege artillery of the Hellenistic world at the end of the 4th century BC. The siege of Salamis, Cyprus, in 306 BC necessitated...
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