Balkan Wars

Greek Domination of the Aegean
The Greek Navy under flagship Averof during the Naval Battle of Lemnos in January 1913 against the Ottoman fleet. ©Anonymous
1913 Jan 18

Greek Domination of the Aegean

Lemnos, Greece

The Naval Battle of Lemnos was a naval battle during the First Balkan War, in which the Greeks defeated the second and last attempt of the Ottoman Empire to break the Greek naval blockade of the Dardanelles and reclaim supremacy over the Aegean Sea. This, the final naval battle of the First Balkan War, forced the Ottoman Navy to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war, thus ensuring the dominion of the Aegean Sea and the Aegean islands by Greece.

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