Salamis, a mountainous island of Greece, on the NW. coast of Attica, the strait between which and the mainland was the scene of a naval victory over the armament of Xerxes by the combined fleets of Athens, Sparta, and Corinth in 480 B.C.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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