This illustration shows Piraeus, the port of Athens, at the time of the Battle of Salamis. In 480 , the time of the so-called Persian Wars, the Greek fleet decisively defeated the Persians, under King Xerxes, at Salamis, an island in the Gulf of Aegina in eastern Greece. Among the Greek leaders was Themistocles.

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