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Salamis

Σαλαμίς).


1.

Now Koluri; an island off the west coast of Attica, and forming the southern boundary of the Bay of Eleusis. It is best known from the great naval victory of the Greeks

Salamis.

over the Persian fleet of Xerxes in B.C. 480. See Xerxes.


2.

A city in Cyprus said to have been founded by Teucer, son of Telamon. See Teucer.

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