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A narrow channel near the island of Salamis
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What is the strait between Alaska and Russia?
Bering strait
A narrow body of water that connects an enclosed sea with a larger body of water?
The name for a narrow body of water that connects an enclosed sea with a larger body of water is a strait. An example would be the Strait of Gibraltar that connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
How do you use strait in a sentence?
The Strait of Gibralter is a famous place.
What does the landform strait look like?
A strait looks like barbells.
Sentence for strait?
A strait is a narrow body of water which connects two seas. Some famous straits are:Strait of GibraltarStrait of MagellanBass Straitthe Bering Strait.
Where did the battle of salamis occur?
In the strait between the island of Salamis and Athens.
Where was the battle of Salamis taken place?
In the strait between Salamis Island and Athens.
Where was the battle of strait of salamis?
Between the Island of Salamis and the Greek mainland near Athens.
Was the battle of salamis fought on land or water?
Water - in the strait between the island of Salamis and Athens.
What did xerxes witness in salamis?
A foothill of Mt Aigaleos above the overlooking the strait between Athens and Salamis.
Where did the Battle Of Salamis take place?
The Battle of Salamis took place in the strait between Piraeus and Salamis Island, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens.
What military leader led the Persians into the narrow waters of the strait of Salamis?
Ariamenes.
Who or what was 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.
What did King Xerxes build so his army could cross the Salamis Strait?
Xerxes did not cross the Salamis Strait. He sat on a hill to the north of it and watched his fleet being demolished by a Greek combined fleet. He then went home. To get down to Greece from Asia Minor, he had a bridge of ships built in the Dardanelles Strait to cross over into eastern Europe to get his army on the march to Greece, which ended up in Athens to watch the Salamis sea battle with him.
What was the Battle of Salamis Bay?
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.
Did the Greeks move around quickly at the battle of the salamis is that how they won?
They won because they split the Persian fleet and defeated it in detail in the narrow waters of the strait.
How did the local terrain help the Greeks at both Thermopylae and Salmis?
At Thermopylai there was a pass to defend, at Salamis there was a narrow strait. Both negated the superiority of the Persian forces.
