EGETÜRKİYE

Rocky Samos shore in the foreground, the Mycale Strait in the middle and hazy slopes of Mount Mycale on the horizon.
Mount Mycale and the Mycale Strait from Samos

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Ionia & AeolisTable and production

Freedom Battle of the Aegean on Mount Mycale

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Place, time and memory in one narrative.

In 479 BCE, the beached Persian fleet on the slopes of Mount Samsun was annihilated by combined Spartan and Athenian forces alongside defecting Milesian guides, sealing a new era of Aegean freedom at the sacred Panionion.

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Long-form story · Table and production · Culture and memory · A link to today · deniz-doga

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  • Ionia & Aeolis

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