• The Battle of Aegina was a sea battle that took place in 458 BCE between Aegina, aided by the Peloponnesian League, and Athens, as part of the Third Messenian...
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    Aegina (/ɪˈdʒaɪnə/; Greek: Αίγινα, Aígina; Ancient Greek: Αἴγῑνα) is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, 27 km (17 mi) from Athens...
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  • port (Piraeus). Aegina joins the Peloponnesian alliance, but their combined fleet is defeated by the Athenians in the Battle of Aegina. The Athenians,...
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  • – Vandalic War Battle of Adwa – 1896 – First Italo-Ethiopian War Battle of Adwalton Moor – 1643 – English Civil War Battle of Aegina – 458 BCE – First...
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    to the goddess Aphaia on the island of Aegina, which lies in the Saronic Gulf. Formerly known as the Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius, the Doric temple...
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  • Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Roman battles Sherman Storytelling:...
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    The Battle of Salamis (/ˈsæləmɪs/ sal-ə-MISS) was a naval battle fought in 480 BC, between an alliance of Greek city-states under Themistocles, and the...
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    Saronic Gulf (redirect from Gulf of Aegina)
    Gulf of Aegina in Greece is formed between the peninsulas of Attica and Argolis and forms part of the Aegean Sea. It defines the eastern side of the isthmus...
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  • port (Piraeus). Aegina joins the Peloponnesian alliance, but their combined fleet is defeated by the Athenians in the Battle of Aegina. The Athenians,...
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  • This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving ancient Greek city states and kingdoms, Magna Graecia, other...
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  • Saint Athanasia of Aegina (c.790 in Aegina – 14 August 860 in Timia, Greece) was a saint who worked in the Byzantine Empire and was for a while adviser...
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  • Battiadae Battle of Abydos Battle of Aegina Battle of Aegospotami Battle of Alalia Battle of Amorgos Battle of Amphipolis Battle of Arginusae Battle of Artemisium...
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    Hayreddin Barbarossa captured a number of Aegean and Ionian islands belonging to the Republic of Venice, namely Syros, Aegina, Ios, Paros, Tinos, Karpathos, Kasos...
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    order of Darius that the Greeks provide him earth and water, in which most consent, including Aegina The Athenian request for assistance of Cleomenes of Sparta...
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    The Battle of Artemisium or Artemision was a series of naval engagements over three days during the second Persian invasion of Greece. The battle took...
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  • Lysander struck westward. Approaching quite near to Athens itself, he attacked Aegina and Salamis, and even landed in Attica. The Athenian fleet set out in pursuit...
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  • Telesarchus of Aegina (Greek: Τελέσαρχος; fl. 5th century BC) was one of the patrons of the Greek lyric poet Pindar. He is the father of the Cleander who...
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  • for Thebes. Athens further consolidated their position by making Aegina a member of the Delian League and by ravaging the Peloponnese. The Athenians were...
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  • walls of Tanagra and ravaged Locrida and Phocis. Their victory at Oenophyta was quickly followed by the surrender of Aegina, and the completion of the construction...
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  • Athens goes on to defeat Aegina later in the year, and to finish the construction of the Long Walls to the Athenian port of Piraeus (an action opposed...
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  • Leotychidas II (category Eurypontid kings of Sparta)
    Aegina, where ten hostages were seized and given to Athens. However, after Cleomenes' death in 488 BC, Leotychidas was almost surrendered to Aegina....
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    The Battle of Plataea was the final land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It took place in 479 BC near the city of Plataea in Boeotia...
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    Euthymenes of Aegina has "twice fallen into the arms of Victory" and achieved fame. In Bacchylides Ode 12 Nike encourages Teisias of Aegina to compete...
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    Saronic Islands (category Landforms of Islands (regional unit))
    inhabited islands of this group are Salamis, Aegina, Agistri, and Poros. The islands of Hydra and Dokos, which lie off the northeast tip of the Peloponnese...
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    allies were campaigning successfully against the Spartans, subjugating Aegina, Boeotia, and central Greece, further expansion was checked when the league...
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    Phoenix (currency) (category Currencies of Greece)
    until 1833. Coincidentally, Aegina is where the first ancient and modern Greek coins were minted – the staters of Aegina were minted in around 700 BC...
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    list of naval battles is a chronological list delineating important naval battles that have occurred throughout history, from the beginning of naval...
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    Patroclus (category Men of Poseidon)
    Locris, by Aegina, daughter of Asopus. Patroclus was Achilles' first cousin once removed through their paternal family connection to Aegina, as Achilles...
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  • was born on Aegina, but none of this enables a precise dating of Ariston's death (or Plato's birth)". Aegina is regarded as Plato's place of birth by Suda...
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    people to introduce the use of gold and silver coins, and the first who sold goods by retail. — Herodotus, I.94 Coins of Aegina The Greek world was divided...
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