Halicarnassus), who made herself famous as a naval commander at the battle of Salamis. Little is known of Pisindalis, her son and successor; but Lygdamis, the...

River) and Cilicia Pedias (Latin: Cilicia Campestris, east of the Limonlu). Salamis, the city on the east coast of Cyprus, was included in the Roman province...

Empire, this territory was part of the vilayet (province) of Damascus-Syria until 1660, then part of the vilayet of Saida (Sidon), briefly interrupted...

Persians at the 479 BC Battle of Platea. Following the Greek victory at Salamis in 480 BC, Alexander I was employed as an Achaemenid diplomat to propose...

hinterlands, all of which belonged to the Beirut Vilayet, together with four Kazas of the Syria Vilayet (Baalbek, the Bekaa, Rashaya and Hasbaya). As a...

Descriptio Orbis Romani of George of Cyprus (c. 600) 392: Epiphanius of Salamis, On Weights and Measures: "So [Hadrian] passed through the city of Antioch...

alliances with foreign powers. After the Greek victory at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC, the Persian commander Mardonius had Alexander I of Macedon (r...

than by land through Mosul. Mosul was the capital of Mosul Vilayet, one of the three vilayets (provinces) of Ottoman Iraq, with a brief break in 1623, when...

mentioned in the Ecthesis, pseudographically attributed to Epiphanius of Salamis, as an autocephalous archdiocese, and around 1084, it was made a metropolitan...

harshly punished by the Persian King following his defeat at the Battle of Salamis, which he blamed on Phoenician cowardice and incompetence. In the mid-fourth...