Sphacteria
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Coordinates: 36°55′48.49″N 21°39′56.61″E / 36.9301361°N 21.665725°E
Sphacteria ({Greek: Σφακτηρία - Sfaktiria, in 19th century context also Sphagia[1]) is a small island at the entrance to the bay of Pylos in the Peloponnese, Greece. It was the site of three battles:
- the 425 BC Battle of Sphacteria in the Peloponnesian war.[2]
- the 1825 AD Battle of Sphacteria in the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire
- the 1826 AD Battle of Navarino, also in the Greek War of Independence
[edit] References
- ^ Purdy, John (1826). The new sailing directions for the Mediterranean sea, the Adriatic sea .... London: R.H. Laurie. pp. 213.
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 12.61-63
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