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A coalition of southern Greek city-states defeated a Persian fleet of Phoenician, Greek and Egyptian ships at the naval battle of Salamis.
The Greek and Persian fleets.
At Marathon and Salamis, the Greek cities defeated the Persian forces. At Thermopylai the Persian forces defeated the Greek cities.
Athens had a powerful navy. This navy was part of the combined navy of the alliance of southern Greek city-states which defeated the Persian navy (which was composrd of Phoenician, Asian-Greek and Egyptian ships) at Salamis.
The combined and powerful Greek navy defeated a similar sized Persian fleet at the battle of Salamis.
Salamis was a strait near Athens where a Greek fleet defeated a Persian fleet in 480 BCE. This the turning point in the Persian invasion of peninsular Greece.
The Greek coalition opposing the Persian attempt to impose peace on them selected the Salamis strait as the place to defeat the Persian fleet after earlier failing at Artemesion. The Persians wished to reliminate the Greek fleet. So it was a mutually satisfctoy arrangement, and the battle was started.
Between the Island of Salamis and the Greek mainland near Athens.
Persian and Greek fleets.
A coalition of southern Greek city-states defeated a Persian fleet of Phoenician, Greek and Egyptian ships at the naval battle of Salamis.
Salamis .
The Greek and Persian fleets.
The Battle of Salamis was a naval battle between the Persian Empire navy compising contingents from Phoenicia, Asian-Greek cities and Egypt, and a coalition fleet from 28 southern Greek city-states led by Sparta in 480 BCE. It was fought in the strait between the island of Salamis and Athens.
There was no Salamis war. There was a naval battle of Salamis which was part of the Greek strategy to repel the Persian invasion of the Greek mainland in 480 BCE.
Holding the pass at Thermopylae was a ploy to force a sea battle in the adjacent strait of Artemesion in an attempt to destroy the Persian sea threat to the Greek city-states. It failed, and the ir next try was at Salamis succeeded. With their sea advantage gone, the Persians could not supply their army by sea and had to send half of it home. And the Greek city-states were able to stop keeping their armies at home to defend the cities, and sent them out to unite and defeat the Persian army at Plataea.
Holding the pass at Thermopylae was a ploy to force a sea battle in the adjacent strait of Artemesion in an attempt to destroy the Persian sea threat to the Greek city-states. It failed, and the ir next try was at Salamis succeeded. With their sea advantage gone, the Persians could not supply their army by sea and had to send half of it home. And the Greek city-states were able to stop keeping their armies at home to defend the cities, and sent them out to unite and defeat the Persian army at Plataea.
A Greek fleet defeated a Persian fleet.