Cynegeirus however died in the battle, receiving a mortal wound while trying to prevent a Persian ship retreating from the shore, for which his countrymen extolled him as a hero.

Meanwhile, in the Persian Gulf, naval warfare erupts, as radio reports tell of ship sinkings on both sides.

* About 500 BC: ( Information originally from Herodotus ): During a naval campaign the Greek Scyllis was taken aboard ship as prisoner by the Persian King Xerxes I.

After the second Persian invasion of Greece, Themistocles fortified the three harbours of Piraeus and created the neosoikoi ( ship houses ); the Themistoclean Walls were completed in 471 BC, turning Piraeus into a great military and commercial harbour.

Given that the Persian fleet appears to have been undermanned in the aftermath of Salamis, 200-300 ships would indeed give this number of naval personnel ( using Herodotus's standard complement of 200 men per ship ).

In the second Persian invasion of Greece, each Persian ship had carried thirty extra marines, and this was probably also true in the first invasion when the whole invasion force was apparently carried in triremes.

Finally, when the Ottoman Sultan Murad IV was about to set out for the Persian War, the Patriarch was accused of a design to stir up the Cossacks, and to avoid trouble during his absence the Sultan had him killed by the Janissaries on June 27, 1638 aboard a ship in the Bosporus.

Later that morning, two U. S. warships shelled an Iranian oil platform in the Persian Gulf in response to Iran's Silkworm missile attack on the U. S. flagged ship MV Sea Isle City.

Around ten days later, the Persian army arrived at Thermopylae, and the Allies at Chalcis were informed by a ship, captained by Abronchius, which had been appointed to liase between the army and the fleet.

During his period in command of HMAS Brisbane, the ship deployed to the Persian Gulf where she participated for the duration of the Persian Gulf War.

While under his command, the ship shot down Iran Air Flight 655 in the Persian Gulf, killing 290 civilians and creating an international incident for the United States.

Iran responded by dispatching Boghammar speedboats to attack various targets in the Persian Gulf, including the American-flagged supply ship Willy Tide, the Panamanian-flagged Scan Bay and the British tanker York Marine.

The attack on the US frigate USS Stark on patrol in the Persian Gulf in 1987 also highlighted the danger of anti-ship missiles, and in the case of the USS Stark, the Iraqi Exocet missiles were not detected and their CIWS was not turned on, since the ship was not expecting attack.

Since the September 11 attacks, members of the 204th SFS have seen duty in central and southwest Asia, in Africa and even onboard ship in the Persian Gulf.

During the liberation of Kuwait in 1990-91, the Portuguese Navy logistics ship NRP São Gabriel supported allied forces in the Persian Gulf.

Built in 1966 as a replenishment ship for the Royal Navy and purchased by the U. S. Navy as a logistics ship, it supported two carrier battle groups in the Indian Ocean during the Iranian hostage crisis and continued its career in the Navy serving across the world, notably in the Persian Gulf.

Helicopters from the Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment ( Airborne ) reached the Navy's command ship in the Persian Gulf on 5 August 1987.

When later Onesicritus returned empty-handed with reply of Dandamis, the King went to forest to visit Dandamis When Alexander constructed his fleet on the Hydaspes, he appointed Onesicritus to the important station of pilot of the king's ship, or chief pilot of the fleet (), a post which he held not only during the descent of the Indus, but throughout the long and perilous voyage from the river to the Persian gulf.

Manuel Rivera died while conducting a training mission over the Persian Gulf when his AV-8B Harrier smashed into the Omani coastline while approaching the deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Nassau ( LHA-4 ) for a landing.

Most supplies in the corridor arrived by ship at Persian Gulf ports, and then were carried north by railway or in truck convoys.

The book has a long and complex history, but its final form is probably due to a Priestly redaction ( i. e., editing ) of a Yahwistic original text some time in the early Persian period ( 5th century BCE ).

Persian infantry ( probably Persian Immortals | Immortals ), shown in a frieze in Darius's palace, Susa

The Persian strategy, on the other hand, was probably principally determined by tactical considerations.

) Since the Athenians seem to have taken up a strong defensive position at Marathon, the Persian hesitance was probably a reluctance to attack the Athenians head-on.

In the early period it was the name of a small territory in southern Babylonia extending along the northern and probably also the western shores of the Persian Gulf.

Michael Coogan supports the statement that authorship was most probably later than the 5th century because it uses Persian " loan words " in the text.

His eye-witness accounts indicate that he travelled in Egypt probably sometime after 454 BC or possibly earlier in association with Athenians, after an Athenian fleet had assisted the uprising against Persian rule in 460-454 BC.

The Torah has little to say on the subject of survival after death, but by the time of the rabbis two ideas had made inroads among the Jews: one, which is probably derived from Greek thought, is that of the immortal soul which returns to its creator after death ; the other, which is thought to be of Persian origin, is that of resurrection of the dead.

Julian not wanting to give up what he had gained and probably still hoping for the arrival of the column under Procopius and Sebastianus, set off east into the Persian interior, ordering the destruction of the fleet.

The majority of scholars agree that the Pentateuch probably received its final form during the Persian period ( 538 – 332 BC ).

These two sections are probably the original Syriac and Middle Persian written by Mani.

The Persian geographer Ibn Khurradadhbih of the 9th century ( d. 911 ) cited the Byzantine lyra, in his lexicographical discussion of instruments as a bowed instrument equivalent to the Arab rabāb and typical instrument of the Byzantines along with the urghun ( organ ), shilyani ( probably a type of harp or lyre ) and the salandj ( probably a bagpipe ).

Thucydides meanwhile clearly states that in the time of the Persian invasions, the majority of the Greek navies consisted of ( probably two-tiered ) penteconters and ploia makrá (" long ships ").

Traders from Arabia, the Persian Gulf region of modern-day Iran ( especially Shiraz ), and west India probably visited Zanzibar as early as the 1st century.

In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hazār Afsān (, lit.

Toward the end of his reign he moved to punish Athens, but a new revolt in Egypt ( probably led by the Persian satrap ) had to be suppressed.

Participating in these intrigues was the general Megabyzus, whose decision to switch sides probably saved the Achamenids from losing their control of the Persian throne.

This in turn is probably a loan word from a Semitic language, related to Hebrew כרכום karkōm, Aramaic ܟܟܘܪܟܟܡܡܐ kurkama, Persian and Arabic كركم kurkum, which mean saffron or saffron yellow.

The Middle English word " candy " began to be used in the late 13th century, coming into English from the Old French çucre candi, derived in turn from Persian Qand (= قند ) and Qandi (= قندی ), " cane sugar ", probably derived from Sanskrit word khanda ( खण ् ड ) " piece ( of sugar )," perhaps from Dravidian ( cf.

Jeffrey Richards explains Hormisdas ' Persian name as probably in honor of an exiled Persian noble, Hormizd, " celebrated in the Roman martyrology ( 8 August ) but not so honoured in the East.

He composed longer pieces on a Persian War theme, including Dirge for the Fallen at Thermopylae, Battle at Artemisium and Battle at Salamis but their genres are not clear from the fragmentary remains-the first was labelled by Diodorus Siculus as an encomium but it was probably a hymn and the second was characterized in the Suda as elegiac yet Priscian, in a comment on prosody, indicated that it was composed in lyric meter.