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	Eurymedon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the following summer, in joint command of the land forces, he ravaged the district of Tanagra; and in 425 he was appointed, with Sophocles, the son of Sostratides, to the command of an expedition destined for Sicily.
		The terms of the pacification did not, however, satisfy the Athenians, who attributed its conclusion to bribery; two of the chief agents in the negotiations were banished, while Eurymedon was sentenced to pay a heavy fine.
		In 414 Eurymedon, who had been sent with Demosthenes to reinforce the Athenians at the siege of Syracuse, was defeated and slain before reaching land (Thucydides iii., iv., vii.; Diodorus Siculus xiii.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eurymedon (307 words)

	Eurymedon River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eurymedon is the name given by ancient geographers to the modern day Turkish river of Kopru su.
		It was situated in Pamphylia and emptied into the Mediterranean.
		Strabo records a lake he called Caprias near its mouth although the area is today a salt marsh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eurymedon_River (160 words)

	Papilio eurymedon in Utah
		eurymedon flies roughly between the elevations of 6000' to 9500' in mountainous regions of the state that harbor colonies of its hostplant.
		This is the case because of the sheer biomass of hostplant as compared to the numbers of immatures in a typical colony coupled with the fact that, unlike P.
		eurymedon, let alone immatures, is the fact that this butterfly usually is the least common of the three Utah glaucus-group swallowtails.
	www.utahlepsociety.org /peurymedon.html (547 words)

	Greco-Persian Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The battle was suspended out of alarm, peace was signed that was strengthened by a royal marriage, and the river Halys was set up as the frontier between the Lydians and the Medes.
		The Persian forces that had been gathered at the mouth of the Eurymedon river were defeated and the cities of Ionia officially joined the alliance.
		Ever since the battle of Eurymedon in 468 BC Athens was engaged in operations against the Persian forces in Cyprus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Persian_Wars (9302 words)

	Aspendos, Perge, Side, Turkey-Adiyamanli.org-
		Aspendos, located beside the river Eurymedon (Köprüçay), is renowned throughout the world for its magnificent ancient amphitheatre.
		Although the city was not on the coast, the river Eurymedon, on whose banks it was situated, allowed ships to reach it.
		Water from the head of the Melas river (today's Manavgat Çayı) reached Side after an adventuresome 30 kilometre journey on two-storeyed arched aqueducts, passing through channels carved out of cliffs, and vaulted tunnels and across valleys before it was collected in city cisterns, from which it was distributed in clay pipes.
	www.adiyamanli.org /aspendos.html (9535 words)

	:: Dragoman Doğa Sporları Merkezi ::
		The 9-day odyssey ends on the shores of Mediterranean Sea, at the mouth of river Eurymedon, where the Athenian admiral Cimon defeated the Persians in 465 in a double battle.
		Aspendos was a river port city in the ancient times and the best preserved theatre of antiquity dating from the 2nd century is dominating the site today.
		The Seljuk Bridge on the Eurymedon River, 2 km south of the Aspendos Acropolis is interesting for its structure.
	www.dragoman-turkey.com /tr/outdoor/eurymedon.htm (2704 words)

	Battle of the Eurymedon - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ephesus – Lade – Marathon – Thermopylae – Artemisium – Salamis – Plataea – Mycale – Eurymedon – Cyprus
		The Battle of the Eurymedon took place between the Athenian-led Delian League and Persia on the Eurymedon River in Pamphylia in Asia Minor.
		The Greeks, led by Cimon of Athens, actually defeated the Persians at two separate battles on the same day, first on the river and then on land.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Battle_of_the_Eurymedon (259 words)

	Aspendus
		The river Eurymedon was navigatable at the time and in 468 BC was used to harbor the Persian fleet while waiting on an additional 80 ships from Phoenicia.
		While the Persian fleet was in the river, the Greek commander "Cimon" moved in for the battle of Eurymedon, the Persian fleet (over 350 ships maybe as many as 600 by some reports) was destroyed using 200 ships.
		The city's prosperity was based on its inland position with a river harbor that permitted trade but hindered military fleets and pirates.
	www.ancientcash.info /page-3/lycia-title-1.html (648 words)

	Gutenkarte » The History of the Peloponnesian War » Eurymedon
		Next we come to the actions by land and by sea at the river Eurymedon, between the Athenians with their allies, and the Medes, when the Athenians won both battles on the same day under the conduct of Cimon, son of Miltiades, and captured and destroyed the whole Phoenician fleet, consisting of two hundred vessels.
		About the same time in the spring, before the corn was ripe, the Peloponnesians and their allies invaded Attica under Agis, the son of Archidamus, king of the Lacedaemonians, and sat down and laid waste the country.
		The colleagues chosen for Nicias were Demosthenes, son of Alcisthenes, and Eurymedon, son of Thucles.
	www.gutenkarte.org /place/7142/13242 (954 words)

	GLOSSARY
		A city on the north shore of the Mediterranean Sea and on the shore of the Eurymedon River in ancient Pamphylia (modern Turkey).
		A mountainous region of western Lycia, between the Xanthos river and the coast.
		The principal city of Pisidia, Selge was situated on the Eurymedon river about 25 miles north of Aspendos.
	www.bagfulofcoins.com /glossary.htm (2545 words)

	Livius Picture Archive: Eurymedon (Köprü Çayi) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The river Eurymedon, where the Athenian admiral Cimon defeated the Persians in 465 in a double battle.
		During the day, he defeated the Persian navy at the estuary of the the Eurymedon, and during the night, he unexpectedly attacked the camp of his enemies.
		At the Persian court, the news of the defeat created great unrest, and king Xerxes was murdered.
	www.livius.org /a/turkey/eurymedon/eurymedon.html (175 words)

	Eurymedon
		For more information on the structure of entries and links available from them, read the notice at the beginning of the index of persons and locations.
		River of Pamphylia, on the southern coast of Asia minor (modern name is Kopru su) (area 5).
		At the mouth of this river, in 466, the Athenians and their allies, under the command of Cimon, won a double battle, on sea and on land, over the Persians, in which two hundred Phoenician ships were destroyed (Thucydides, I,100 ; Plutarch's Life of Cimon, 12).
	plato-dialogues.org /tools/loc/eurymedn.htm (335 words)

	WaterHistory.org
		In ancient times, the Eurymedon River, which flows into the nearby Mediterranean Sea, was navigable as far as the city.
		It has been long known that stone-block pipes from the Aspendos siphons were used in the construction of a Seljuk-era road bridge over the nearby Eurymedon River.
		As the Aspendians did not want to lose their trading position, their most pressing interest was to rebuild the bridge, and the spolia from the aqueduct was certainly convenient.
	www.waterhistory.org /histories/aspendos (1905 words)

	Turkish Odyssey/Places of Interest/Mediterranean/Perge-Aspendus-Side-Alanya
		It is 184 km / 114 miles long and originates from the small rivers out of the southeast of Lake Egirdir.
		Aspendus was a major port city in the Roman period with the navigable river of Koprucay.
		Aspendus was founded on a hilltop near the Eurymedon river and it later spread down to the plain.
	www.turkishodyssey.com /places/medit/medit3.htm (2679 words)

	Myus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The green starts where the river starts, and beyond it is only the steppes.
		Lots of fish can be caught in the canal between the lake and the sea, and the mouth of the river.
		He was well received by the Persians and was allowed to settle in Magnesia on the Meander river.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /ancgreece/myus.htm (903 words)

	pamphylia - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project
		The mountainous country to the north, much of which was included in Byzantine Pamphylia, I have preferred to call Pisidia.
		Aspendus (Balkyzi), on the river Eurymedon, about eight miles from the sea, was a populous and wealthy city.
		Types—River Eurymedon; Herakles standing before Eurystheus (?), behind whom is a spear-bearer; Zeus seated and goddess seated or standing (Hera ?); Twin cultus-statues of veiled goddess, sometimes in temple, or held by Tyche (Imhoof, Kl.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /numiswiki/view.asp?key=pamphylia (1640 words)

	History of Ancient Athens - Periklean Age
		Aristeides decided that some of the allies ought to keep a number of ships at sea and the islands who could not afford it, to pay a contribution to the treasury, starting thus the foundation for the naval dominion of Athens.
		The war with Persia was still continuing and Kimon with a big fleet sailed to Thrace and laid siege to Eion, on the Strymon river (476 BC).
		From Naxos, Kimon sailed to Asia and after assembling a fleet of two hundred triremes, laid siege to the Greek city of Phaselis, and as soon as the city was submitted, he sailed to the river Eurymedon in 466 BC, to attack the Persian fleet.
	www.sikyon.com /Athens/ahist_eg03.html (6045 words)

	RAFTING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Approximately 100 m before the Oluk Bridge, the water is still and the river forms a pool.
		Those interested in river sports can also enjoy all other activities the region has to offer, including jeep safaris and trekking through the Köprülü Canyon National Park during the summer.
		There are unpretentious restaurants and small inns on both banks of the river near Beskonak and Oluk Bridge.
	www.tiger-tr.com /eng/tours/rafting.htm (553 words)

	simonides
		Unextinguished fame these men placed about their dear fatherland, and put around themselves the blue-fl cloud of death, nor are they dead though they have died, since arete, glorfying them, leads them up again from below, from the house of Hades.
		For the Greek dead in the sea and land battle fought at the mouth of the Eurymedon river (467)
		These beside the Eurymedon lost their splendid youth fighting against the first ranks of the bow-bearing Medes.
	www.faculty.fairfield.edu /rosivach/cl115/simonides.htm (540 words)

	War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In response, he crossed the Rubicon River, thus entering Rome proper and waged war against Pompey.
		Rubicon River 49 BC Ilerda 49 BC Utica 49 BC Bagradas River 49 BC Illyria 49 BC Dyrrachium 48 BC Pharsalus 48 BC Alexandria 47 BC Zela 47 BC Ruspina 46 BC Thapsus 46 BC Munda 45 BC Caesar assassinated 44 BC.
		During this phase the Holy Roman Empire (Ferdinand II, the Hapsburg emperor) and Spain (Philip IV) fought Denmark and Norway (Christian IV) and Sweden (Gustavus Adolphus).
	mwooge.homestead.com /War.html (1252 words)

	Great Battles of the Persians :: 0 A.D. :: Wildfire Games
		The Massagetae try to distract the Persians with diplomacy as the invaders bridge a river marking the boundary of their territory.
		The Athenian-led Delian League attacks the Persians on the Eurymedon River in Asia Minor.
		The Persians wait across the Granicus River for the Macedonians, who attack quickly, fording the river and break through the Persian line.
	www.wildfiregames.com /0ad/page.php?p=6579 (1627 words)

	Anatolia: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History
		Perge-was fed by the Kestros river and had by it access to the sea and thus to trade, despite being 12 kilometers from the sea.
		Pisidians :Battle of the Eurymedon river between the Persians and the Athenian general Cimon 467/6 BCE (Diod.
		Thracians- historically Thrace was the term roughly bounded by the rivers Danube and Nestos, and by the Aegean, Marmara and Black seas.
	www.juyayay.com /outline/anatolia (9235 words)

	Cimon (c. 510 - c. 451 B.C.)
		Athenian statesman and general who played an active part in building up the Athenian empire in the period following the Greco-Persian Wars and whose conservatism and policy of friendship with Sparta were opposed to the policy of Pericles.
		His greatest military victory was the defeat of a Persian fleet (manned by Phoenicians) at the mouth of the River Eurymedon in Pamphylia in 466 BC.
		Next he subdued the pirates of the island of Scyros and replaced them with Athenian settlers and transported back to Athens in triumph the supposed remains of Theseus, the ancient king of Athens, who was said to have been buried there.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /imperialism/notes/cimon.html (972 words)

	IGL Slip Database for e)/xis. Page 69 of 73
		The river affords a voyage inland to Seleuceia, a city which is well-peopled and stands far aloof from the Cilician and Pamphylian usages.
		The Peneius River rises in the Pindus Mountain and flows through Tempo and through the middle of Thessaly and of the countries of the Lapithae and the Perrhaebians, and also receives the waters of the Europus River, which Homer called Titaresius; it marks the boundary between Macedonia on the north and Thessaly on the south.
		Then the Rivers Erigon and Ludias; and from Ludias to the city of Pella the river is navigable, a distance of one hundred and twenty stadia.
	icarus.umkc.edu /11082004/SG/ex/45734.68.html (14272 words)

	Ancient Greek Battles before the Peloponnesian War
		The date of the battle of the Eurymedon River has been estimated from 468 to 465 BC.
		In 465 BC, probably early in the year, the Athenians got into an arguement with the fertile and now wealthy island of Thasos.
		On land in Greece the Athenians had fought the Corinthians with an army of old men and boys.
	www.geocities.com /caesarkevin/battles/Greekbattles3.html (4743 words)

	Aspendos Photo Album 2004
		Aspendos is located in the Pamphylian plain at 47 km east of Antalya near the village of Belkis.
		In ancient times Aspendos was a river port city that, according to legend, was founded by colonists from Argos when they returned from the Trojan war.
		The city first came to prominence in 479 BC when the Persian navy was destroyed by the Greeks, under the command of Cimon, in a bloody naval battle at the mouth of the nearby Eurymedon River (present Köprüçay meaning Bridge River).
	www.anatolia.luwo.be /Aspendos.htm (344 words)

	Athens: Empire and Democracy
		Three major steps mark the transformation of a voluntary alliance against the Persians into an involuntary empire led by, and serving the advantage of, Athens.
		Under Cimon, the League won a number of victories, culminating in the battle of the Eurymedon river in 467, where they decisively defeated a Persian army and fleet.
		Around 450, most scholars believe, the Delian league had made a peace treaty with the Persians, and freed the Greeks of Ionia.
	www.siu.edu /~dfll/classics/Johnson/HTML/L16.html (2126 words)

	Cimon. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		From 478 to 477 he helped Aristides form the Delian League.
		He conquered Skíros, subdued Asia Minor, and in 468 defeated the Persian sea and land forces on the Eurymedon River.
		On the death of Aristides he led the Athenian aristocratic and pro-Spartan party and was its chief statesman in succession to Themistocles.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/65/ci/Cimon.html (156 words)

	Thucydides-Passages
		Whereby the Athenian navy was proportionally increased, while they themselves were always untrained and unprepared for war when they revolted.
		(1.100) A little later the Athenians and their allies fought two battles, one by land and the other by sea, against the Persians, at the river Eurymedon in Pamphylia.
		The Athenians, under the command of Cimon the son of Miltiades, on the same day conquered in both, and took and destroyed all the Phoenician triremes numbering two hundred.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/thucydides/thucydides-passages.php?pleaseget=1.99-103 (899 words)

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