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Sphacteria

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Population
  
0 (2011)

Area
  
3.2 km²

Pop. density
  
0 /km (0 /sq mi)

Regional unit
  
Messenia

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Sphacteria (Greek: Σφακτηρία - Sfaktiria, in 19th century context also Sphagia) 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.
  • 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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