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Battle of Elli

Index Battle of Elli

The Battle of Elli (Ναυμαχία της Έλλης, İmroz Deniz Muharebesi) or the Battle of the Dardanelles took place near the mouth of the Dardanelles on as part of the First Balkan War between the fleets of the Kingdom of Greece and the Ottoman Empire. It was the largest sea battle of the Balkan Wars. [1]

31 relations: Armored cruiser, Balkan Wars, Battleship, Chios, Coastal defence ship, Crossing the T, Dardanelles, First Balkan War, Greek cruiser Elli (1912), Greek cruiser Georgios Averof, Greek frigate Elli, Greek ironclad Hydra, Greek ironclad Psara, Greek ironclad Spetsai, Hellenic Navy, Italian cruiser Eugenio di Savoia, Kingdom of Greece, Lemnos, Lesbos, Ottoman cruiser Mecidiye, Ottoman destroyer Muavenet-i Milliye, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman ironclad Asar-i Tevfik, Ottoman ironclad Mesudiye, Ottoman Navy, Pavlos Kountouriotis, Protected cruiser, Samos, SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm, SMS Weissenburg, Vasileios Hatzis.

Armored cruiser

The armored cruiser was a type of warship of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Balkan Wars

The Balkan Wars (Balkan Savaşları, literally "the Balkan Wars" or Balkan Faciası, meaning "the Balkan Tragedy") consisted of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan Peninsula in 1912 and 1913.

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Battleship

A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns.

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Chios

Chios (Χίος, Khíos) is the fifth largest of the Greek islands, situated in the Aegean Sea, off the Anatolian coast.

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Coastal defence ship

Coastal defence ships (sometimes called coastal battleships or coast defence ships) were warships built for the purpose of coastal defence, mostly during the period from 1860 to 1920.

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Crossing the T

Crossing the T or capping the T is a classic naval warfare tactic used from the late 19th to mid 20th centuries, in which a line of warships crosses in front of a line of enemy ships, allowing the crossing line to bring all their guns to bear while receiving fire from only the forward guns of the enemy.

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Dardanelles

The Dardanelles (Çanakkale Boğazı, translit), also known from Classical Antiquity as the Hellespont (Ἑλλήσποντος, Hellespontos, literally "Sea of Helle"), is a narrow, natural strait and internationally-significant waterway in northwestern Turkey that forms part of the continental boundary between Europe and Asia, and separates Asian Turkey from European Turkey.

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First Balkan War

The First Balkan War (Балканска война; Αʹ Βαλκανικός πόλεμος; Први балкански рат, Prvi Balkanski rat; Birinci Balkan Savaşı), lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and comprised actions of the Balkan League (the kingdoms of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro) against the Ottoman Empire.

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Greek cruiser Elli (1912)

Elli (Κ/Δ Έλλη) was a 2,600 ton Greek protected cruiser (Εύδρομο Καταδρομικό) named for a naval battle of the First Balkan War in which Greece was victorious.

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Greek cruiser Georgios Averof

Georgios Averof (Θ/Κ Γεώργιος Αβέρωφ) is a modified armored cruiser built in Italy for the Royal Hellenic Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

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Greek frigate Elli

Greek frigate Elli (F450) (Φ/Γ Έλλη) is the lead ship of the Greek of frigates and the third Hellenic Navy ship by that name.

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Greek ironclad Hydra

Hydra (Ὕδρα) was an ironclad warship of the Greek Navy, named for Hydra, one of the Saronic Gulf islands which played a key role in the war at sea during the Greek War of Independence.

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Greek ironclad Psara

Psara (Θ/Κ Ψαρά) was a steel-built ironclad warship named for one of the Aegean Sea islands that played a key role in the war at sea during the Greek War of Independence.

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Greek ironclad Spetsai

Spetsai (Greek: Θ/Κ Σπέτσαι) was a Greek ironclad battleship of the that served in the Royal Hellenic Navy from 1890 until 1920.

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Hellenic Navy

The Hellenic Navy (HN; Πολεμικό Ναυτικό, Polemikó Naftikó, abbreviated ΠΝ) is the naval force of Greece, part of the Hellenic Armed Forces.

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Italian cruiser Eugenio di Savoia

Eugenio di Savoia was a light cruiser, which served in the Regia Marina during World War II.

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Kingdom of Greece

The Kingdom of Greece (Greek: Βασίλειον τῆς Ἑλλάδος) was a state established in 1832 at the Convention of London by the Great Powers (the United Kingdom, Kingdom of France and the Russian Empire).

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Lemnos

Lemnos (Λήμνος) is a Greek island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea.

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Lesbos

Lesbos (Λέσβος), or Lezbolar in Turkish sometimes referred to as Mytilene after its capital, is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea.

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Ottoman cruiser Mecidiye

Mecidiye (in older publications also spelled as Medjidiye) was a protected cruiser of the Ottoman Empire that saw action during the Balkan Wars and World War I.B. Langensiepen, A. Güleryüz, J. Cooper, "," Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, United States, 1995.

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Ottoman destroyer Muavenet-i Milliye

Muavenet-i Milliye or Muâvenet-i Millîye was a destroyer built for the Ottoman Navy prior to World War I. The ship is most notable for sinking the British pre-dreadnought battleship during the Dardanelles Campaign in World War I.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.

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Ottoman ironclad Asar-i Tevfik

Asar-i Tevfik (Ottoman Turkish: God's Favor) was an ironclad warship of the Ottoman Navy built in the 1860s, the only member of her class.

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Ottoman ironclad Mesudiye

Mesudiye (Ottoman Turkish: Happiness) was a central-battery ironclad of the Ottoman Navy, one of the largest ships of that type ever built.

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Ottoman Navy

The Ottoman Navy (Osmanlı Donanması or Donanma-yı Humâyûn), also known as the Ottoman Fleet, was established in the early 14th century after the Ottoman Empire first expanded to reach the sea in 1323 by capturing Karamürsel, the site of the first Ottoman naval shipyard and the nucleus of the future Navy.

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Pavlos Kountouriotis

Pavlos Kountouriotis (Παύλος Κουντουριώτης, 9 April 1855 – 22 August 1935) was a Greek rear admiral during the Balkan Wars, regent, and the first President of the Second Hellenic Republic.

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Protected cruiser

The protected cruiser is a type of naval cruiser of the late 19th century, so known because its armoured deck offered protection for vital machine spaces from fragments caused by exploding shells above.

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Samos

Samos (Σάμος) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of Asia Minor, from which it is separated by the -wide Mycale Strait.

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SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm

SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm ("His Majesty's Ship Prince-elector Friedrich Wilhelm") was one of the first ocean-going battleships of the Imperial German Navy.

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SMS Weissenburg

SMS Weissenburg was one of the first ocean-going battleships of the Imperial German Navy.

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Vasileios Hatzis

Vasileios Hatzis or Vassileios Chatzis (Βασίλειος Χατζής, 1870 – 1915) was a Greek painter who was best known for his seascapes.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Elli

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