aegospotamos
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1. 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) (noun.act)
| instance hypernym | : | naval battle, |
| definition | : | a pitched battle between naval fleets (noun.act) |
| part meronym | : | peloponnesian war, |
| definition | : | a war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta; 431-404 BC (noun.act) |
2. 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 (noun.object)
| part meronym | : | republic of turkey, turkey, |
| definition | : | a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923 (noun.location) |
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