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Battle of Alalia

Map of the Tyrrhenian Sea surrounded by Etruscans, Greeks, and Phoenicians
DateSome time between 540 BC and 535 BC
Location
Off the coast of Corsica
Result Greek victory[1]
Territorial
changes
The Greeks evacuated Corsica, which was captured by the Etruscans, while Carthage maintained its hold on Sardinia
Belligerents
The Greek Phocaean Colonies of Alalia Carthage
Etruscans
Strength
60 Pentekonters Around 120 Ships
Casualties and losses
Almost 40 Pentekonters Unknown

The naval Battle of Alalia took place between 540 BC and 535 BC off the coast of Corsica between Greeks and the allied Etruscans and Carthaginians. A Greek force of 60 Phocaean ships defeated a Punic-Etruscan fleet of 120 ships while emigrating to the western Mediterranean and the nearby colony of Alalia (now Aléria).

  1. ^ Herodotus, Histories, I, 166.

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