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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Salamis When St. Paul landed at Salamis with Barnabas and John, surnamed Mark, returning from Seleucia, there were several synagogues, and it was there he began the conversion of the island (Acts, xiii, 5). It was already an important centre in the sixth century B.C. Its foundation is attributed to Teucer, son of Telamon, King of the Island of Salamis, opposite Attica; others believe it to be of Phoenician origin and derive its name from the Semitic selom, peace. After its destruction the inhabitants and clergy betook themselves to Famagusta, which became and for a long time remained the residence of the archbishops. www.newadvent.org /cathen/13393a.htm

Encyclopedia: Battle of Salamis Artemisia, the queen of Halicarnassus in Asia Minor and an ally of Xerxes, supposedly tried to convince him to wait for the Greeks to surrender, as a battle in the straits of Salamis would be deadly to the large Persian ships, but Xerxes and his chief advisor Mardonius pressed for an attack. At least 200 Persian ships were sunk, including one by Artemisia, who apparently switched sides in the middle of the battle to avoid being captured and ransomed by the Athenians. His argument depended on a particular interpretation of the oracle at Delphi, which, in typical Delphic ambiguity, prophesized that Salamis would "bring death to women's sons," but also that the Greeks would be saved by a "wooden wall". www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-of-Salamis

Salamis, Cyprus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Salamis Salamis is an ancient city on the east coast of Cyprus, at the mouth of the river Pedieos, 6 km North of Gazimaguşa. Salamis was finally abandoned during the Arab invasions of the The mythical founder of Salamis is Teucer, son of Telamon who could not return home after the Trojan war because he had failed to avenge his brother www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salamis,_Cyprus

Battle of Salamis (in Cyprus) During the siege Cimon died and the command of the fleet was given to Anaxicrates, who left Citium to engage the Phoenician and Cilician fleet at Salamis of Cyprus. Cimon with the remaining ships aided the uprising of the Cypriot Greek city-states against their hegemon and laid siege to the Persian stronghold of Citium on the south west coast of Cyprus. This revolt led to the Battle of Coronea in 447 BC. encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/b/ba/battle_of_salamis__in_cyprus_.html

Phoenicia, Phoenician Ships, Navigation and Commerce Cyprus furnishes ivory, which she must first have imported from abroad.[38] Greece Proper sends her shell-fish, to enable the Phoenician cities to increase their manufacture of the purple dye.[39] Finally, Spain yields silver, iron, tin, and lead--the most useful of the metals--all of which she is known to have produced in abundance.[40] The sea battle on the top of the page is an illustration of the battle of Salamis. The fleet included contingents from Phoenicia, Cyprus, Egypt, Cilicia, Pamphylia, Lycia, Caria, Ionia, Æolis, and the Greek settlements about the Propontis.[14] When it reached the Hellespont, the great king, anxious to test the quality of his ships and sailors, made proclamation for a grand sailing match, in which all who liked might contend. www.phoenicia.org /ships.html

Battle of Salamis in Cyprus (450 BC) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Battle of Salamis of 480 BC was a naval battle in the Greco-Persian Wars near the island of Salamis near Athens in Greece. This revolt led to the Battle of Coronea in 447 BC. The Athenians did not take advantage of their victory; instead, they simply returned home, where they found that Sparta had taken over the temple at Delphi, and that the Boeotians were beginning to revolt against Athenian rule. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Salamis_(in_Cyprus)   (369 words)

The Battle of Salamis - ca. 496 BC Apart from Soli, Salamis and Kurion, other prominent Cypriot towns included Idalion (Edi'il), Tamassos (Tamesi) and Kition (Kitrusi the largest Cypriot town), some of which are likely to have contributed contingents to the battle. The battlefield location is unkown, other than it was on the plain by the city of Salamis, I assume that the battle was not fought right by the city, since otherwise the routing Cypriots might have been less easily cut down, and the city's presence is not mentioned as a factor in the battle. It seems likely that Onesilus was a populist politician, since his campaign involved the popular slogan of liberation from the Persians, as opposed to his pro-Persian brother who was no doubt supported by the aristocracy of Salamis, as in other Greek and Greek-influenced towns under Persian rule. www.ritsumei.ac.jp /se/~luv20009/Salamis1.html   (369 words)

Demetrius I of Macedon In the campaign of 306 BC against Ptolemy he defeated Menelaus (the brother of Ptolemy) in naval Battle of Salamis, and completely destroyed the naval power of Egypt. After an unsuccessful expedition against Babylon, and several campaigns against Ptolemy on the coasts of Cilicia and Cyprus, Demetrius sailed with a fleet of 250 ships to Athens. At the age of twenty-two he was left by his father to defend Syria against Ptolemy the son of Lagus; he was totally defeated in Battle of Gaza, but soon partially repaired his loss by a victory in the neighbourhood of Myus. hallencyclopedia.com /Demetrius_I_of_Macedon   (736 words)

Ptolemy I of Egypt In 306 BC a great fleet under Demetrius attacked Cyprus, and Ptolemy's brother, Menelaus, was defeated and captured in the decisive battle of Salamis. Henceforth, Ptolemy seems to have mingled as little as possible in the broils of Asia Minor and Greece; his possessions in Greece he did not retain, but Cyprus he re-conquered in 295 BC/294 BC. In 285 BC he abdicated in favour of one of his younger sons by Berenice, who bore his father's name of Ptolemy; his eldest (legitimate) son, Ptolemy Ceraunus, whose mother, Eurydice, the daughter of Antipater, had been repudiated, fled to the court of Lysimachus. www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pt/Ptolemy_I_of_Egypt.html   (894 words)

Demetrius I Demetrius defeated Ptolemy I, king of Egypt, in a battle (306 bc) at Salamís, on the island of Cyprus. In 95 bc, with the aid of Ptolemy IX, at that time the king of Cyprus, Demetrius III gained the throne of Syria and was joint ruler of all Syria with his brother Philip I, against whom for a time he waged a civil war. Demetrius I was killed in battle while resisting the usurpation of Alexander Balas (reigned 150-145 bc), a youth from Smyrna pretending to be the son of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and backed by Rome and Syria's neighbors. www.jordanexpert.com /html/demetrius_i.htm   (573 words)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Wars Information - Articles Free Battles are categorized by the participating countries (under sub-categories of Category:Battles by country), by war (under sub-categories of Category:Battles by war), and by type (under sub-categories of Category:Battles by type). But if the two battles are very close in time they are probably best described in a single article, for example the article Battle of Algeciras describes two battles sometimes called the "First" and "Second" Battles of Algeciras. The Battle of Warsaw (the "Miracle at the Vistula"), the decisive battle of the Polish-Soviet War. www.articlesfree.com /index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wars   (3470 words)

Science Fair Projects - Salamis, Cyprus Salamis is an ancient city on the east coast of Cyprus, at the mouth of the river Pedieos, 6 km North of Gazimaguşa. Salamis was finally abandoned during the Arab invasions of the 7th century AD after destructions by Muawija. He forced the last king of Salamis, Nikokreon, who had been the Ptolemaic governor of the island, to commit suicide in 311 BC, because he did not trust him any more. www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Salamis,_Cyprus   (795 words)

#Cyprus On Undernet IRC Network The turning point in the war between Greece and Persia was the naval battle of Salamis, the Greek island in 480 BC, in which Cyprus committed 150 of her ships on the side of the Persians. Salamis, now called Constantia, (in honour of the Emperor) was soon rebuilt and it became the new capital of Cyprus but it was never to regain its former splendour. The rise of Christianity in Cyprus met with a lot of resistance by the Jews and in 117AD there was a terrible massacre in Salamis, where a vast majority of the Gentile population were killed. www.cyprusirc.net /cyprusirc/modules.php?name=Cyprus_History   (5635 words)

Salamis, Cyprus Salamis is an ancient city on the east coast of Cyprus, part of the Roman province of Cilicia and largely destroyed in the 7th century A.D. by Arab invaders. In 450 BC it was the site of a simultaneous land battle and sea battle against Athens (see Battle of Salamis). There are very extensive ruins which could do with more attention from archaeologists. www.fact-index.com /s/sa/salamis__cyprus.html   (5635 words)

450 BC Battle of Salamis (in Cyprus)[?] Athenians under Cimon defeat the Persian fleet. www.fastload.org /45/450_BC.html   (5635 words)

Ships of the Ancient Greeks - An Annotated List William L. Rodgers, Greek and Roman Naval Warfare: A Study of Strategy, Tactics, and Ship Design from Salamis (480 B.C.) to Actium (31 B.C.) - Exactly as the title implies, this is a wonderfully thorough examination of how naval battles of antiquity were won and lost. Warfare in Hellas - The Greek Trireme- A couple of images and some historical background on the Battle of Salamis and the famous race to rescind the Mytilene massacre provide a good single-page overview of the topic. The Battle of Syme - In January, 411 B.C., Spartan ships defeated a squadron of Athenian vessels off the island of Syme in the south- eastern Aegean. www.bulfinch.org /fables/grkship.html   (5635 words)

CHAPTER 39 - CHRONOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST 480 -Ahasuerus defeated by Greeks at Battle of Salamis 609 -NEBUCHADNEZZAR defeats Necho at Battle of Haran But the dates tend to drop out after A.D. From that time onward, there were only a few major known dates of genuine importance in each century for nearly 1400 years. www.evolution-facts.org /3evlch39.htm   (5635 words)

DBM - Ptolemaic Successor The size of the army in 306 BC (which isn't reported) is likely to have been conisiderably bigger than the 22000 men reported at Gaza in 312 BC, since it represented essentially the entire, Cyprus having been temporarily abandoned in 307 BC. Consequently battles were either fought by the sea, such as at Gaza, or across branches of the Nile such as Perdikkas' and Antigonos' unsuccessful invasions. Cypriot allies: Cyprus was heavily divided when Ptolemy initially imposed his rule, with some factions supprting him, and other resisting. iworg.com /strongbow/LUS/PtolemaicSuccessorDBM.htm   (1626 words)

Oars And Bc on each of three oars) in 340 BC and septiremes in 315 BC, which saw action at the Battle of Salamis in Cyprus (306 BC). of Salamis in Cyprus (306 BC); his son Demetrius, involved in... In the 4th century BC, after the Peloponnesian War, there was a shortage of oarsmen of sufficient skill to man large navies of triremes. www.sailboat-resources.com /sailboat-32/oars-and-bc.html   (839 words)

Brink-Day-Johnston-Fletcher - Person Page 154 Led the Armenian auxiliaries of Darius III in the battle of Gaugamela, 1Oct. In 155, however, the Seleucid ruler of Syria had incurred Ptolemy'senmity by conspiring to seize Cyprus. Married to Ptolemy afterthe battle, she gave birth to the future Ptolemy V Epiphanes about 210.Thereafter she was sequestered in the palace, while Ptolemy's depravedmale and female favourites ruined both king and government. www.brinkfamily.net /tree/p154.htm   (5989 words)

Brink-Day-Johnston-Fletcher - Person Page 158 Unsuccessful againstPtolemy I Soter, satrap of Egypt, and against the Nabataeans, heliberated Athens from the Macedonian Cassander in 307 BC and in 306decisively defeated Ptolemy at Salamis (Cyprus). The grateful Athenianshonoured Antigonus and Demetrius as divine saviours (theoi soteres).Cassander's influence in Greece was now broken, and in 306 Demetriusdefeated Ptolemy's fleet near Salamis on the island of Cyprus andconquered the island. When he died, in 1426 BC, he was laid torest in a remote corner of the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings inwestern Thebes. www.brinkfamily.net /tree/p158.htm   (5407 words)

GONATAS HERITAGE The Seleukidian Kingdom, of which Syria was the heart: For considerable time it covered the greater part of the former Persian Empire, but proved unable to resist blows rained from east and west by Parthians and Romans. The Attalid Kingdom of Pergamos in Western Asia Minor: It was founded in 281 BC., by general Philhetairos. The Kingdom of Macedonia: Following Kassandro's death in 297 BC. www.stmichaelacademy.org /heritage_gonatas.html   (754 words)

Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Bireme Macedon in 340 BC built sexiremes (probably with two men on each of three oars) and in 315 BC septiremes, which saw action at the Battle of Salamis in Cyprus (306 BC). The project must have met with considerable success, as 150 Athenian triremes reputedly saw action in the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC and participated in the defeat of Xerxes' invasion fleet there. Triremes fought in the naval battles of the Peloponnesian War (431 - 404 BC), including the Battle of Aegospotami in 405 BC, which sealed the defeat of the Athenian Empire by Sparta and her allies. www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Bireme   (2564 words)

Ethics of the Hellenistic Era by Sanderson Beck One of the generals for Megalopolis in their battles with Sparta was the Cynic poet Cercidas, who lamented the suffering of the poor, criticized the gods for not distributing earthly goods justly, and warned the rich to stop being spendthrifts or misers and to help those in need, or else there would be trouble. In 307 BC Antigonus' son Demetrius took the Peiraeus by surprise, allowed Demetrius of Phalerum to retreat to Thebes and then Egypt, and captured the Cassandrian garrisons at Munychia and Megara, declaring the Megarians free and destroying the fortifications at Munychia. 187-175 BC) was assassinated by a conspiracy of court officers; but his brother Antiochus IV Epiphanes (r. www.san.beck.org /EC23-Hellenistic.html   (20398 words)

Diadochi After great battles at Paraitacene in 317 BC and at Gabiene in 316 BC, Eumenes was eventually betrayed and murdered by his own troops in 315 BC, leaving Antigonus in undisputed control of the Asian territories of the Empire. Although Eumenes defeated the rebels in Asia Minor, in a battle at which Craterus was killed, it was all for nought, as Perdiccas himself was murdered by his own generals Peithon, Seleucus, and Antigenes while preparing an invasion of Egypt. But although Cassander was tempted to conclude peace with Antigonus, in Asia the war turned against the one-eyed general, with Ptolemy invading Syria (and defeating Antigonus'son, Demetrius, in the Battle of Gaza, 312 BC) and Seleucus securing control of Babylon, and thus, of the eastern reaches of Alexander's empire. www.infoslurp.com /information/Diadochi   (2291 words)

L. Ray Smith - The Lake of Fire - Part 8 However, "conquers" is a more precise word, and adds the dimension of being "victorious," as in battle, as our Christian walk is most definitely a battle. Notice what "overcomers or conquerers" in the Seven Churches are promised: www.bible-truths.com /lake8.html   (2291 words)

*** The House of Ptolemy: Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptian Numismatics *** But the depiction of Octavian in a triumphal quadriga on the reverse indicates that the coin actually dates from his triple triumph (for his victories in Illyricum and Egypt, as well as in the battle of Actium) in Rome in 29 BCE, when the Senate conferred numerous honors upon him. A monograph attributing certain Alexander-type tetradrachms, including Ptolemaic issues, to Salamis in Cyprus. Victoria on a ship's prow on the obverse refers to naval victory, specifically Octavian's defeat of Antony's fleet in the Battle of Actium. www.houseofptolemy.org /housenum.htm   (2291 words)

HELLAS:NET - Warfare The battle of Artemisium had learnt him a valuable lesson: the Persian numbers would not count in a narrow strait, but they would count against them. The remaining Persian ships stopped at the island of Psyttaleia and blocked the entrance to the strait of Salamis: the Greek fleet can not escape. To give Xerxes the impression that they were actually retreating to Corinth Themistocles sent the Corinthian squadron of his fleet to the north at dawn. monolith.dnsalias.org /~marsares/warfare/battle/salamis.html   (2291 words)

ANTIQUITY: INDEX to volumes 1-77(1927-2003) Ma, Xue-Ping, see Hao, Shou-Gang Ma'an shan, Henan, 67:831 Ma'anzhong, 67:833 Maastricht Treaty, 72:265, 468, 818, 819 Maastricht-Belvedere, 72:689 Ma'rib, Abu Dhabi: ancient dam, 51:239-40 Maa-Palaiokastro, Cyprus, 67:916 Mabbett, I. and D. Chandler: The Khmers, 69:1051-5 Maby, J. C.: Wood fragments from a lake settlement at Auvernier, Switzerland, 2:472 ff. Mar Casado, São Paulo, 72:599 Mar del Plata city, rock-shelter near, 71:450-52 Marajara phase, 72:629 Mar Casado, São Paulo, 72:599 Marajara phase, 72:629 Marajó Island, Brazil, 74:469-70 culture, 74:469-70 pottery, 72:575, 654 Marakanda, 11:9 Maramures region, Romania, 67:369-77 Maranhão, Brazilian state, 72:593, 659 Maratha, 74:671-81 Marathon: Battle of: epigrams of Simonides and Aeschylus, 8:176 ff. Mathiassen, T., 72:277, 279 reviews by, 29:172-3; 30:235-6 Mathiati, Cyprus, 68:6 Mathrafel, 9:327 Matinhos, Paraná, 72:599 Matmata Hills, S. Tunisia: Troglodytes, 5:1 ff. intarch.ac.uk /antiquity/listing/m.htm   (2291 words)

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