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	Salamis Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Greek island of Salamis (Greek, Modern: Σαλαμίνα Salamina, Ancient/Katharevousa: Σαλαμίς Salamis) is the largest island in the Saronic Gulf, about 1 nautical mile (2 km) off-coast from Piraeus.
		Salamis island is known for the Battle of Salamis, and is said to be the birthplace of Ajax and Euripides, the latter's birth being popularly placed on the day of the battle of Salamis.
		There is only one municipal boundary in the island and it, Ampelakia Salaminas, is bounded with the Saronic Gulf in the south and west.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salamis_Island (268 words)

	Geographia: Islands
		Scyrus (Skyrus) was an Aegean island northeast of Euboea.
		Naxos was one of the larger islands of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea.
		Leucas was an island in the Ionian Sea, north of Cephallenia and Ithaca.
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	SALAMIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The king of Salamis is among those recorded as submitting to the Assyrians in 707 B.C., climed on some of this coins (the earliest known from Cyprus) to be ruler of the whole Island, which proves the early pre-eminence of Salamis among the cities of the Island.
		Salamis was defended by Menelaus against all the arts which won Demetrius the name "Besieger of Cities", but the signal defeat of Ptolemy when he arrived with his fleet to releive the city, left Salamis and the island in Demetrius' hands.
		Salamis was exposed to the full brunt of the Arab raids which were launched against the Island intermittently from about A.D. In the first expedition under Muawiya Salamis besieged, capture and sacked, and the population massacred.
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	Salamis
		Salamis was a maritime town on the eastern coast of Cyprus, situated at the end of a fertile plain between two mountains, near the River Pediaeus.
		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).
		Salamis was destroyed by earthquakes, and was rebuilt by Constantius II (337-61), who called it Constantia.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/salamis.html (321 words)

	Salamis, Cyprus - LoveToKnow 1911
		SALAMIS, the principal city of ancient Cyprus, situated on the east coast a little north of the river Pedias (Pediaeus).
		A king Kisu of Silna (Salamis) is mentioned in a list of tributaries of Assur-bani-pal of Assyria in 668 B.C., and Assyrian influence is marked in the fine terra-cotta figures from a shrine at Toumba excavated in 1890-1891.
		Under Egyptian and Roman administration Salamis flourished greatly, though under the Ptolemaic priest-kings and under Rome the seat of government was at New Paphos (see Paphos).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Salamis,_Cyprus (403 words)

	Salamis, Greece
		Salamis (modern Greek Salamína), the largest island in the Saronic Gulf, with a much indented coast, closes off the entrance to the Bay of Eleusis.
		Salamis is celebrated as the scene of the great naval battle in 480 B.C. in which the Athenians, their resources depleted by war, inflicted a devastating defeat with their force of 378 triremes on a much larger Persian fleet and thus finally frustrated Xerxes' plans to expand westward into Europe.
		The battle - which Aeschylus, an eye-witness, took as the theme of his tragedy "The Persians" - was fought in the waters to the east of Salamis, between the island of Áyios Yeóryios to the north and the island of Psyttaleia and the Kynosoura ("Dog's Tail") peninsula to the south.
	www.planetware.com /attica/salamis-gr-cen-salam.htm (212 words)

	Paul's First Missionary Journey, Salamis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tradition represented Salamis as rounded soon after the fall of Troy by Teucer, the prince of Greek archers according to the narrative of the Iliad, who named it after his home, the island of Salamis off the Attic coast.
		Paul did not return to Salamis, but Barnabas doubtless went there on his 2nd missionary journey (Ac 15:39), and tradition states that he was martyred there in Nero’s reign, on the site marked by the monastery named after him.
		Salamis was almost depopulated, and its destruction was afterward consummated by earthquakes in 332 and 342 AD.
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		An island 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) from the southeastern coast of Greece due west of the city of Athens in the northern Saronic Gulf; with an area of 37 square miles (95 square kilometers) and a coastline of 64.6 miles (104 kilometers).
		Salamis is noted as the birthplace of the Greek hero, Aias (Ajax) and the poet Euripides; the Greeks defeated the Persian navy of king Xerxes here in 480 BCE; the battle of Salamis was one of the most daring and desperate battles in Greek history.
		Regarding Greek influence, the island was settled as early as the third millennium BCE by the original Greeks, known as the Pelasgians.
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	The Baldwin Project: Xerxes by Jacob Abbott
		Salamis was a much more advantageous position, he said, than the coast of the isthmus, for a small fleet to occupy, in awaiting an attack from a large one.
		The unhappy fugitives with which the island was thronged were their wives and children, and they were extremely unwilling to go away and leave them to so cruel a fate as they knew would await them if the fleet were to be withdrawn.
		There was a small island between Salamis and the coast of Attica, that is, on the eastern side of Salamis, called Psyttalia, which was in such a position as to command, in a great measure, the channel of water between Salamis and the main land on this side.
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	Greek Mythology: SALAMIS Naiad Nymph of Salamis Island
		SALAMIS was the Naiad Nymph of the spring, well or fountain of the town of Salamis on the island of the same name (in southern Greece).
		She was a daughter of the River Asopos who was abducted to the island by the god Poseidon.
		SA′LAMIS (Salamis), a daughter of Asopis, and by Poseidon the mother of Cenchreus or Cychreus.
	www.theoi.com /Nymphe/NympheSalamis.html (340 words)

	Saronic Gulf - Athens yacht charter itineraries
		The main occupation of the inhabitants is farming, in particular the growing and export of the island's excellent pistachio nuts.
		This was the occasion of further conflicts with Athens, which saw the strong neighbouring island as an obstacle to the expansion of its sea-power.
		From the harbour, sheltered by a breakwater, there are fine views of the smaller islands of Metopi and Angistri to the south-west and Moni to the south and of the hills round Epidavros.
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		Aigina is close to the coast of the Peloponnese and relatively distant from Salamis and the coast of Attika.
		It was the battle of Salamis that prevented the Persians from attacking the Peloponnese by sea in order to destroy the cities one by one; given the number of the Persian ships, the cities could not have found a way to organize a common resistance.
		In 1956 Hammond, although he tried to refute by some obscure argument the contention that on the eve of the battle of Salamis part of the Persian fleet was stationed at Keos and Kynosura, granted that it is no longer possible to ascribe a smaller figure to the Persian fleet.
	www.metrum.org /perwars/salamis.htm (2245 words)

	LIMNIA –TO MELLON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Evagoras a young descendant of Teucer established himself as king of Salamis in 411 B.C. and proved to be 'the greatest of all Cypriot rulers and politicians'.
		He persuaded many distinguished Athenians to emigrate to Salamis and the town according to Isocrates, was 'second to none of the Greek cities in civilisation'.
		Alasia 1.5 miles west of Salamis was the Neolithic capital of Cyprus and archaeological expeditions have made significant discoveries.
	kypros.org /Occupied_Cyprus/Limnia (382 words)

	Cychreus
		by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee Ph.D. According to the myths Cychreus was the son of the god Poseidon and the nymph Salamis, the daughter of the river-god Asopus.
		Concluding, we can note that the myth about the first legendary king of the island Salamis is related to the myths about the first mythical kings in Attica and their protective and educative role in this region.
		In the Athenian myth about the kings Cecrops and Erichthonius as well as in the myth about the king Cychreus of Salamis, the snake was a positive symbol associated with a dead hero and implemented his protective power over this land and its inhabitants.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/c/cychreus.html (527 words)

	GREEKISLANDS.COM - ATHENS, THE CAPITAL OF GREECE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		his is the largest and the most densely populated one from all the islands in the Saronic Gulf and the closest to Athens.
		The island is covered with pine and has beautiful beaches along its south coast.
		But the Athenians were the victors and it was this battle which finally freed Athens from the dreadful threat which was hung over it, allowing it to move into the most glorious years of the so-called Golden Age.
	www.greekislands.com /athens/salamis.htm (352 words)

	Salamis Antik Kenti
		The city of Salamis was founded during the migrations that started towards the end of the Bronze Age by the tribes that came from Anatolia, and Akas who came from Greece and joined them in Kilikya.
		The gymnasium was destroyed in the earthquakes in 332 and 342 A. and was later reconstructed by Constantinus as the Salamis baths.
		The Royal Tombs The Salamis Necropolis covers an area of roughly 4 square miles and stretches from Enkomi to the West end of the Salamis forest and to the St. Barnabas Monastery.
	www.tourism.trnc.net /main/tarih/magosa/esalamis.html (1637 words)

	SALAMIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The region around the bay of Salamis is one of the most favoured in the whole island.
		The city shared the destiny of the rest of the island during the successive occupations by the various dominant powers of the Near East, viz.
		The archeological site is the most spectacular in the island because the ruins are very extensive and are in a wonderful state of preservation.
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	Salamis The Island -- Salamina Municipality -
		Salamis Island is the birth place of mythical heroes like Aias or Ajax once the king of Salamis Island, Euripides the great poet and play writer.
		Heavy industry also exists on our island as we have 5 ship yards for the larger vessels and 3 smaller ones for yachts and cruisers not forgetting our own salaminian shipbuilders that specialize in traditional wooden fishing boats (Trata) as we call them, and are renowned throughout Greece.
		That in short is Salamis Island browse through the links for more information and we thank you for visiting our site, feel free to e-mail us for any questions you have we would be pleased to answer.
	www.salamina.gr /english/index.htm (213 words)

	Learn more about Athens in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The principal cities in the League were Athens, Chios, Samos, and Lesbos, but many of the principal islands and Ionian cities joined the league.
		Athens led the Delian League from the beginning, though at its founding the treasury was located on the island of Delos, and each state in the league had an equal vote.
		In 458 BC, the Athenians blockaded the island of Aegina, and simultaneously defended Megara from the Corinthians by sending out an army composed of those too young or old for regular military service.
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	Battles : Salamis
		Salamis /Cyprus 450 BC The Battle of Salamis took place around 450 BC near Salamis in Cyprus.
		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.
		The Battle of Salamis in Cyprus of 306 BC was a naval battle between the fleets of Demetrius I of Macedon and Ptolemy I of Egypt.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/History/Battles/SalamisCyprus450.html (327 words)

	Winter vacationing in Turkish Cyprus Special for Japanese visitors at Hilton The St. Paul culture center, Antalya 33 ...
		Salamis, which was one of the most important cities of ancient Cyprus, was established by King Teucer in the 11th century B.C. Teucer was the disowned son of the king of Salamis, the island off the Greek coast, near Athens, from which the name of the Cypriot city was derived.
		Salamis as a city offered access to the fertile land in the center of the island, to the south of the Besparmak Mountains, and also a busy harbor.
		In 648 Salamis was conquered by the Arabs who were spreading out from Mecca and Medina in one of the many waves of religious fervor that carried them all the way to Constantinople in the north and along the northern coast of Africa to the west.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=15278 (2836 words)

	Salamis
		The Greek island of Salamis (Greek, Modern: Σαλάμινα Salamina, Ancient/Katharevousa:) is the largest island in the Saronic Gulf, about 1 nautical mile (2 km) off-coast from Piraeus.
		Salamis island is known for the Battle of Salamis, and is said to be the birthplace of Ajax the great and Euripides, the latter's birth being popularly placed on the day the island's famous battle was won.
		Solon of Athens the son of Execestides was probably born in Salamis
	www.mlahanas.de /Greece/Cities/Salamis.html (304 words)

	Naval warfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ensuing Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive engagements of history.
		In 1582, the Battle of Punta Delgada in the Azores, in which a Spanish fleet defeated a French force, thus suppressing a revolt in the islands, was the first battle fought in mid-Atlantic.
		In 1588, Philip V of Spain sent his Spanish Armada to subdue Elizabeth I of England, but her admiral Sir Francis Drake defeated and scattered the force, beginning the rise to prominence of the Royal Navy.
	www.mywikipedia.us /Naval_warfare (3030 words)

	Salamis
		The Greek navy had been forced back to the Island of Salamis not so much because of the overpowering force of the Persian fleet, but because they needed a base of operations and as the army of Xerxes advanced, the options for overnight harbors and resupply began to diminish.
		Salamis is an island in the southwest portion of Attica (the territory within which Athens was situated).
		It was fairly close to the coast, but held a very good harbor and was separated just far enough from the mainland to protect the bulk of the citizens who had abandoned the city of Athens even as Xerxes moved into it.
	www.indepthinfo.com /salamis/salamis.shtml (699 words)

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		The ancient town is on the southwestern part of the island, located in the Saronic Gulf 15km off the western coast of Athens.
		The strait between the island and the mainland was the scene in 480BC of a crushing defeat of the Persian fleet under Xerxes I by the allied Greek city-states under Athenian general Themistocles.
		If the finds can be proven, they could indicate that Salamis had a thriving Mycenaean culture dating back to the 13th century BC and coincide with Homeric accounts of the island.
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	Salamis - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		SALAMIS [Salamis] island, E Greece, in the Saronic Gulf, W of Athens.
		It early belonged to Aegina but was later under Athenian control, except for a brief period after it was occupied (c.600 BC) by Megara.
		First off the mark: German meat processor Reinert provided some of the first salamis in the UK and is now driving their growth in the multiples.
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	USATODAY.com - Archaeologist links ancient palace with Ajax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ATHENS — Among the ruins of a 3,200-year-old palace near Athens, researchers are piecing together the story of legendary Greek warrior-king Ajax, hero of the Trojan War.
		Archaeologist Yiannis Lolos found remains of the palace while hiking on the island of Salamis in 1999, and has led excavations there for the past six years.
		Salamis was founded around 1100 B.C., when Enkomi — some 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) away — was abandoned.
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	Salamis (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools
		There they preached the gospel in the "synagogues of the Jews" (Acts 13:5); the phrase is worth noting as pointing to the existence of several synagogues and thus of a large Jewish community in Salamis.
		Of work among the Gentiles we hear nothing, nor is any indication given either of the duration of the apostles' visit or of the success of their mission; but it would seem that after a short stay they proceeded "through the whole island" (Acts 13:6 the Revised Version (British and American)) to Paphos.
		Paul did not return to Salamis, but Barnabas doubtless went there on his 2nd missionary journey (Acts 15:39), and tradition states that he was martyred there in Nero's reign, on the site marked by the monastery named after him.
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