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Battle of Salamis

Name: Battle of Salamis
Location: Salamis Island, Greece

Battle of Salamis was a naval engagement fought on 29 September 480 BC at Salamis Island, in what is now Greece. It was part of Second Persian invasion of Greece, which ran from 480 BC to 479 BC. The recorded result: Greek victory.

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Battle of Thermopylae and movements to Salamis, 480 BC. The Department of History, United States Military Academy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fought29 September 480 BC

WhereSalamis Island, Greece37.951N, 23.567E

OutcomeGreek victory

BelligerentsAthens; Sparta; Corinth; Aegina; other Greek city-statesagainstAchaemenid Empire

Part ofSecond Persian invasion of Greece480 BC to 479 BC

Where it sits in Second Persian invasion of Greece

9 placed engagements of Second Persian invasion of Greece in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date	29 September 480 BC
Place	Salamis Island, Greece 37.951N, 23.567E
Kind	Naval engagement, ancient
Territorial change	Persian army forced to withdraw from Attica, including the city of Athens
Commanders	Themistocles Eurybiades	Xerxes I of Persia Tetramnestos Artemisia I of Caria Achaemenes (satrap) Ariabignes Damasithymus

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Munichia 404 BC, 7.9 km E
Battle of Phaleron 1827, 12 km E
Siege of Athens 87 BC, 13 km E
Siege of the Acropolis 1826, 13 km E
Siege of Athens 404 BC, 13 km E

In the same war

Before: Battle of Thermopylae July 480 BC
After: Battle of Mycale 479 BC
All 9 engagements of Second Persian invasion of Greece

Elsewhere in 480 BC

Battle of Himera Italy
Battle of Veii Italy

Battle of Salamis is one of 99 engagements of the 5th century BC in the atlas and one of 493 in present-day Greece.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q178850, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Salamis, revision 1381984535, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.