Salamis in a sentence

George Papasavvas’ recently published book also shows how scientific research into a Cypriot Late Bronze Age city near Salamis became embroiled in the mid-20th century politics of imperial powers, such as Britain and France.

The shop sold ham, bacon, salamis and several other types of sausages.

Similarly to New Salamis FC, the club rose through the English non-league system, reaching as high as the ninth-tier Spartan South Midlands Premier Division, winning four league titles and three league cups along the way.

The island was near the Salamis channel and an obvious place of refuge for battle-shipwrecked sailors on both sides.

Themistocles’s next task was to lure the Persians into attacking at Salamis, where their superior numbers would be neutralized and the Greeks would have a better than even chance to win.

Mottershall said he will be using local ingredients in his cured sausages and salamis.

It was at the battles of Marathon and (later) Salamis that Persians were defeated and the (brief) Athenian ascendancy born.

According to Herodotus, Queen Artemisia of Caria pointed this out to Xerxes in the run-up to Salamis.

After Salamis, the Peloponnesus, and by extension Greece as an entity, was safe from conquest; and the Persians suffered a major blow to their prestige and morale (as well as severe material losses).

A legend, which was first mentioned by Epiphanius of Salamis in the 4th century AD, purported that Mary may have spent the last years of her life in Ephesus.

A number of historians believe that a Persian victory would have hamstrung the development of Ancient Greece, and by extension western civilization, and this has led them to claim that Salamis is one of the most significant battles in human history.

A significant number of historians have stated that Salamis is one of the most significant battles in human history (though the same is often stated of Marathon).

Autumn/Winter 480/479 BC The Allied victory at Salamis ended the immediate threat to Greece, and Xerxes now returned to Asia with part of the army, leaving his general Mardonius to attempt to complete the conquest.

Either way, when Xerxes received this news, he ordered his fleet to go out on patrol off the coast Salamis, blocking the southern exit.

He was disowned by his father and was not allowed to return to his home, the island of Salamis off the coast of Athens.

He was disowned by his father and wasn't allowed back on Salamis Island.

Holland, p.303 However, it was strategically not necessary for the Persians to actually fight this battle at Salamis.

Holland, p.366 Like the Battles of Marathon and Thermopylae, Salamis has gained something of a 'legendary' status (unlike, for instance, the more decisive Battle of Plataea), perhaps because of the desperate circumstances and the unlikely odds.

Holland, pp. 302 303 However, Themistocles tried to convince them to remain in the Straits of Salamis, invoking the lessons of Artemisium; "battle in close conditions works to our advantage".

Holland, pp.359–363 Salamis started a decisive swing in the balance of power toward the Greeks, which would culminate in an eventual Greek victory, severely reducing Persian power in the Aegean.