'''Aegospotami ''' or '''Aegospotamos'''<ref name="WebsterNinthNewCollege">Mish, Frederick C., Editor in Chief. “Aegospotami.” ''[[Webster's Dictionary#The Collegiate Dictionary|Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary]]''. 9^th ed. Springfield, MA: [[Merriam-Webster]] Inc., 1985. ISBN 0-87779-508-8, ISBN 0-87779-509-6 (indexed), and ISBN 0-87779-510-X (deluxe).</ref> (i.e. ''Goat Streams'') is a small river issuing into the [[Hellespont]], northeast of [[Sestos]]. At its mouth was the scene of the decisive [[battle of Aegospotami|battle]] in [[405 BC|405 <small>B.C.</small>]] by which [[Lysander]] destroyed the [[Athens|Athenian]] fleet, ending the [[Peloponnesian War]].<ref name="WebsterNewWorldSecondCollege">Guralnik, David B., Editor in Chief. “Aegospotami.” ''[[Webster's New World Dictionary|Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language]]''. Second College Edition. New York, NY: [[Prentice Hall|Prentice Hall Press]], 1986. ISBN 0-671-41809-2 (indexed), ISBN 0-671-41807-6 (plain edge), ISBN 0-671-41811-4 (pbk.), and ISBN 0-671-47035-3 (LeatherKraft).</ref>

The township of that name, whose existence is attested by coins of the 5th and 4th centuries, and the river itself were located in ancient [[Thrace]] in the [[Thracian Chersonese|Chersonese]].<ref name="WebsterNinthNewCollege">Mish, Frederick C., Editor in Chief. “Aegospotami.” ''[[Webster's Dictionary#The Collegiate Dictionary|Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary]]''. 9^th ed. Springfield, MA: [[Merriam-Webster]] Inc., 1985. ISBN 0-87779-508-8, ISBN 0-87779-509-6 (indexed), and ISBN 0-87779-510-X (deluxe).</ref>

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