Lepanto

[li-pan-toh, le-pahn-taw]

noun

1. Greek Návpaktos. a seaport in W Greece, on the Lepanto Strait: Turkish sea power destroyed here 1571.

2. Gulf of. Corinth, Gulf of.

3. Also called Rion Strait. Strait of. a strait between the Ionian Sea and the Gulf of Corinth. 1 mile (1.6 km) wide.

Lepanto

noun

1. Greek name: Návpaktos. a port in W Greece, between the Gulfs of Corinth and Patras: scene of a naval battle (1571) in which the Turkish fleet was defeated by the fleets of the Holy League. Pop (municipality): 18 259 (2001)

2. another name for the (Gulf of) Corinth

Example Sentences

Once part of the Byzantine Empire, it was later hotly contested between the Ottoman Empire and the Venetians, who called the town Lepanto.

From Seattle Times

That work, “The Battle of Lepanto,” was sold in Venice in 1908 to a German archaeologist and art historian, Friedrich Sarre, the first director of the Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin.

From New York Times

Conservative Catholic activist Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute has been a frequent critic of McElroy, for example condemning his strong support for the Association of United States Catholic Priests.

From Seattle Times

“What did the battles of Actius, Lepanto and Salamis have in common?” and “When and what was the Edict of Nantes?”

From New York Times

Cervantes would hold forth hilariously, slurring his words through that famously toothless mouth, bragging about his exploits against the Moors and how he lost the use of his hand at Lepanto.

From New York Times