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2 unusual facts about Salamis


Epameinondas Kavvadias

He subsequently served as Chief of the Royal Naval Base at Salamis until 1939, including another short term at the head of the General Staff in August–September 1938.

Serpent Column

In the latter the, in comparison to the storm buffeted Persians', much smaller fleet of Greek naval forces retreated to Salamis after several undecisive clashes during at least three days in August, 480 BC, after the news of the defeat on land left the strategy of the Greek allies in ruins.


Adeimantus

Adeimantus of Corinth, Greek commander at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC

Adversus Haereses

Panarion (medicine-chest), also a work in opposition to heresies, written in the 300s by Epiphanius of Salamis.

Chronicon Paschale

The chief authorities used were: Sextus Julius Africanus; the consular Fasti; the Chronicle and Church History of Eusebius; John Malalas; the Acta Martyrum; the treatise of Epiphanius, bishop of Constantia (the old Salamis) in Cyprus (fl. 4th century), on Weights and Measures.

Cyril of Turaw

They are works by early Christian and Byzantine churchmen that would have been available to Kirill in Slavonic translations: John Chrysostom, Epiphanius of Salamis, Ephrem of Syrus, Gregory of Nazianzus, Eusebius of Caesarea, and the scholia of Nicetas of Heraclea, Titus of Bostra, Theophylact of Ohrid, and the chronicler George the monk (George Hamartolus).

Hellenic Navy

Both governments embarked on a naval armaments race, with Greece purchasing the obsolete battleships Lemnos and Kilkis and the light cruiser Elli as well as ordering two dreadnoughts, the Vasilefs Konstantinos and the Salamis and a number of destroyers.

Joseph Heco

Heco later helped Itō visit England with the assistance of British Admiral Henry Keppel of the H.M.S. Salamis.

Megara Gulf

It begins at Agioi Theodoroi and stretches eastward to the cape south of the village of Pachi in Megara and a small strait near Salamis Bay, and south to the area around Lamprino on the island of Salamis.

MV Shelly

On 31 August, Salamis Lines, owner of the Salamis Glory, arranged for 148 stranded Cypriot passengers from the ship to be flown back to Cyprus on a Cyprus Airways jet.

Piraeus Prefecture

The prefecture covered the south-western part of the agglomeration of Athens, several islands in the Saronic Gulf (Salamis, Aegina, Agkistri, Poros, Hydra, Dokos, Spetses, Spetsopoula), Methana and Troizina on the Peloponnese peninsula, and the islands of Kythira and Antikythera south of the Peloponnese.


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