peloponnesian war

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1. a war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta; 431-404 BC (noun.act)

instance hypernym	:	war, warfare,
definition	:	the waging of armed conflict against an enemy (noun.act)

part holonym	:	aegospotami, aegospotamos,
definition	:	a river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey); in the mouth of this river the Spartan fleet under Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (404 BC) (noun.act)