Battle of Lemnos

When

18 Jan 1913

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

39.92° N, 25.25° E

Description

1913 naval battle during the First Balkan War

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Naval battle during the First Balkan War

The Naval Battle of Lemnos, fought on 18 January [O.S. 5 January] 1913, was a naval battle during the First Balkan War, in which the Greeks defeated the second and last attempt of the Ottoman Empire to break the Greek naval blockade of the Dardanelles and reclaim supremacy over the Aegean Sea.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “victoire navale grecque sur la Turquie à la bataille de Lemnos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• First Balkan17 Oct 1912 · Interstate war · Deaths 82,000