Navarino

Navarino (also Neocastro, and officially Pylos), on a bay on the south-west coast of the Morea in Greece, contains only 2000 inhabitants, but has an excellent deep harbour, the best in Greece. The ancient Pylos, the city of Nestor, stood near. The Bay of Navarino was the scene of a great sea-fight between the Athenians under Cleon and the Spartans (425 B.C.), in which the latter were defeated ; and on the 20th October 1827 it saw the annihilation of the Turkish and Egyptian navies by the combined British, French, and Russian fleets under Sir Edward Codrington.