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Aegospotami

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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)

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

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In 404 BC, the Athenians gathered their remaining ships at Aegospotami (near the Thracian Chersonese ). Source: Internet

Lysander (main or main; died 395 BC, Greek Λύσανδρος main, Lýsandros) was a Spartan admiral who commanded the Spartan fleet in the Hellespont which defeated the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC. Source: Internet

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