aegospotamos

Noun
  1. A creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey;
    At its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War (synset 109211791)
    is an instance of: brook, creek - a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
    is a part of: republic of turkey, turkey - a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923
    same as: aegospotami
  2. A river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey);
    In the mouth of this river the Spartan fleet under Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (404 BC) (synset 101271379)
    is an instance of: naval battle - a pitched battle between naval fleets
    is a part of: peloponnesian war - a war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta; 431-404 BC
    same as: aegospotami

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