Description: A map of Salamis Island and Bay, and the Coast of Attica at the time of the Persian Wars. The map shows the proximity to Athens and the site of the naval battle of Salamis (480 BC), where the Persian fleet under Xerxes I was defeated by the Greek fleet under the Athenian Themistocles and Spartan Eurybiades.
Place Names: Greece, Athens, Attica, Phalemon, Salami
ISO Topic Categories: oceans,
location,
inlandWaters
Keywords: Salamis and the Coast of Attica, borders,
historical, country borders, oceans,
location,
inlandWaters, Unknown, 480 BC
Source: C. A. Fyffe , History of Greece (New York, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876) 62
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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