ARTEMISIUM, BATTLE OF


Meaning of ARTEMISIUM, BATTLE OF in English

(480 BC), during the Greco-Persian Wars, a Persian naval victory over the Greeks in an engagement fought near Artemisium, a promontory on the north coast of Euboea. The Greek fleet held its own against the Persians in three days of fighting but withdrew southward when news came of the defeat at Thermopylae.

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