Battle of Salamis in Cyprus (450 BC)
- Battle of Salamis in Cyprus (450 BC)
Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Battle of Salamis in Cyprus (450 BC)
partof=thePersian Wars caption=
date=450 BC
place=Salamis, Cyprus
result=Delian League victory.
territory=Persians control all of Cyprus until Delian League soldiers return home.
combatant1=Delian League
combatant2=Achaemenid Empire
commander1=Cimon KIAAnaxicrates
commander2=Megabyzus
strength1=200+ triremes
strength2=About 600 ships
casualties1=Unknown
casualties2=UnknownThe Battle of Salamis took place around
450 BC near Salamis inCyprus .In
454 BC the Athenian-ledDelian League lost a fleet in an unsuccessful attempt to aid anEgypt ian revolt against Persia. Over the next three years, Athens also failed to capture Pharsalus inThessaly , as well asSicyon andOeniadae , all of which were allies of theSparta n-ledPeloponnesian League . In451 BC Athens concluded a five-year truce with Sparta.After the truce,
Cimon found the opportunity to continue the war against the Persians. He sailed to Cyprus with two hundredtrireme s of the confederacy. From there, he sent sixty ships to Egypt to help the Prince Amyrtaeos, who was fighting the Persians at the Nile Delta. With the remaining ships, Cimon aided the uprising of the Cypriot Greek city-states against their hegemon and laid siege to the Persian stronghold ofCitium on the south west coast of Cyprus. During the siege Cimon died and the command of the fleet was given toAnaxicrates , whom subsequently retreated from Citium to engage thePhoenicia n andCilicia n fleet at Salamis of Cyprus. The Greek fleet gained a complete victory on sea and land and rejoining with the sixty ships in Egypt, sailed to Athens.There is a phrase in Greek commemorating this win (=The Athenian general even dead wins)The Athenians did not take advantage of their victory; instead, they simply returned home, where they found that Sparta had taken over the temple at
Delphi , and that theBoeotia were beginning to revolt against Athenian rule. This revolt led to the Battle of Coronea in447 BC .* The
Battle of Salamis of480 BC was a naval battle in theGreco-Persian Wars near the island of Salamis nearAthens inGreece .
* The Battle of Salamis in Cyprus of306 BC was anaval battle
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