What the records say
- When
- 306 BCE
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 35.17° N, 33.92° E
- Description
- naval battle during the Wars of the Diadochi
- Naval
- yes
6 sources record it
- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Demetrius Poliorcetes lands on Cyprus and besieges Menelaus, brother of Egypt's ruler, Ptolemy I Soter, at Salamis”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In der Schlacht von Salamis auf Zypern besiegt Demetrios I. Poliorketes die Flotte von Menelaos, dem Bruder des Ptolemaios I.”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Victoire navale décisive de Démétrios Poliorcète sur Ptolémée Sôter à Salamine de Chypre”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Деметрий I Полиоркет напал на Кипр, в битве при Саламине победил Менелая (брата Птолемея I Сотера) и захватил весь остров”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “プトレマイオス1世の弟のメネラオスは、キプロス島沖のサラミスの海戦でデメトリオス1世に敗れて捕えられた。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page