Salamis
Salamis (Italian Salamina) may refer to :
- Places and jurisdictions
- Salamis Island in the Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, near Athens, Greece
- Battle of Salamis, fought at Salamis Island in 480 BC between allied Greeks and Achaemenid Persian empire
- old-fashioned name of Salamina (city), the largest town and a former municipality on Salamis Island
- Salamis Naval Base, a Greek naval base on Salamis Island
- Greek battleship Salamis, a dreadnought ordered from Germany by Greece in 1912 but not delivered due to the outbreak of World War I
- Salamis, Cyprus, an ancient city on the east coast of Cyprus, also named Constantia, former seat of a Metropolitan archbishopric, now double (Latin Catholic and Cypriot Orthodox) titular see
- Battle of Salamis in Cyprus (450 BC), fought between Greeks and Persians
- Battle of Salamis (306 BC), fought between two of the Diadochi, Ptolemy I and Demetrius
- Salamiyah (Arabic: سلمية Salamīya), a city and district in western Syria.
- Other
- Salamis (mythology), a nymph in Greek mythology
- Salamis (butterfly), a genus of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae
- Salamis-Class Cruiser, a warship in the fictional Gundam universe
- The English plural of salami
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