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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Small island in Greece, site of three battles}}<br />
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|name = Sphacteria<br />
|native_name = Σφακτηρία<br />
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|image_name = Sfakteria.jpg<br />
|image_caption = Sphacteria from [[Pylos]]<br />
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|country_admin_divisions = [[Peloponnese]]<br />
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|country_admin_divisions_1 = [[Messenia]]<br />
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'''Sphacteria''' ({{langx|el|Σφακτηρία}} - ''Sfaktiria'')<ref>{{cite book|title=The new sailing directions for the Mediterranean sea, the Adriatic sea ... |last= Purdy|first=John|year=1826 |publisher=R.H. Laurie|location=London|pages=213}}</ref> also known as '''Sphagia''' (Σφαγία)<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-grc1:8.4.2 Strabo, Geography, 8.4.2]</ref> is a small island at the entrance to the bay of [[Pylos]] in the [[Peloponnese]], [[Greece]]. It was the site of three battles:<br />
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*the 425 BC [[Battle of Sphacteria]] in the [[Peloponnesian War]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.livius.org/pb-pem/peloponnesian_war/war_t02.html |title=Diodorus Siculus, 12.61-63 |access-date=2020-03-26 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202628/http://www.livius.org/pb-pem/peloponnesian_war/war_t02.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> <br />
*the 1825 AD [[Battle of Sphacteria (1825)|Battle of Sphacteria]] in the [[Greek War of Independence]] from the [[Ottoman Empire]]<br />
*the 1827 AD [[Battle of Navarino]], also in the Greek War of Independence<br />
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The shipwreck of the ''[[Irenes Serenade]]'' took place near the island in 1980.<br />
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