aegospotamos

Noun	1.	Aegospotamos - a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War Aegospotami Republic of Turkey, Turkey - a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923 brook, creek - a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer"
	2.	Aegospotamos - a river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey); in the mouth of this river the Spartan fleet under Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (404 BC) Aegospotami naval battle - a pitched battle between naval fleets Peloponnesian War - a war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta; 431-404 BC

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