Aegospotamos

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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; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923
	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 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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The first known use of a military tribunal occurred in 405 B.C., after the destruction of the Athenian fleet at Aegospotamos. (22) According to the ancient historian Xenophon, the Lacedaemonian admiral Lysander called a meeting of his allies to determine the fate of the vanquished Athenians.

Prosecuting al Qaeda: America's human rights policy interests are best served by trying terrorists under international tribunals

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