Aegospotami meaning

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Aegospotami (noun): 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.

Aegospotami has 2 meanings in this dictionary.

Aegospotami as a 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

    Synonyms: Aegospotamos

    Type of: brook

  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)

    Synonyms: Aegospotamos

    Type of: naval battle

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