Sphacteria

Coordinates: 36°55′48.49″N 21°39′56.61″E / 36.9301361°N 21.6657250°E / 36.9301361; 21.6657250

Sphacteria from the East

Sphacteria from Pylos.

Sphacteria (Greek: Σφακτηρία - Sfaktiria, in 19th century context also Sphagia)^[1] is a small island at the entrance to the bay of Pylos in the Peloponnese, Greece. It was the site of three battles:

• the 425 BC Battle of Sphacteria in the Peloponnesian war.^[2]
• the 1825 AD Battle of Sphacteria in the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire
• the 1827 AD Battle of Navarino, also in the Greek War of Independence

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