Cape Matapan, also known as Cape Tenaro or Tainaro (Greek: Ακρωτήριο Ταίναρο), is situated at the end of the Mani, Laconia, Greece. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly The Mani Peninsula ( Μάνη in Greek) also long known as Maina or Maïna, is a region in Greece. For the Laconian dialect see Doric Greek For the Ancient Kingdom see Sparta For the laconic expression see Laconic Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία Cape Matapan is the southernmost point of mainland Greece and of Europe. It separates the Messenian Gulf in the west from the Laconian Gulf in the east. The Messenian Gulf ( Greek: Μεσσηνιακος Κόλπος Messiniakos Kolpos) is a sea that is part of the Ionian Sea.
Cape Matapan has been an important place for thousands of years. The ancient Spartans built several temples here dedicated to various gods. The city of Sparta ( Doric Σπάρτα Attic Σπάρτη A temple (from the Latin word Templum) is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities such as prayer and sacrifice or analogous rites Cape Matapan was once the place were mercenaries waited to be employed. A mercenary is a person who takes part in an armed conflict who is not a national or a party to the conflict and is "motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by
More recently a lighthouse was constructed but it is now in disuse. A lighthouse is a Tower, building or framework designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or in older times from a fire and used as an In March 1941, off the coast of Cape Matapan, a major naval battle, the Battle of Cape Matapan, occurred between the Royal Navy and the Regia Marina, in which the British emerged victorious in a one-sided encounter. The Battle of Cape Matapan (Battle of Tenaro) was a World War II Naval battle fought off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece from The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service) The Regia Marina ( Italian Royal Navy) dates from the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 after Italian unification. The Battle's main result was to drastically reduce future Italian naval activity in the Eastern Mediterranean.
There is a cave at the tip of Cape Matapan that Greek legends claim was the home of Hades, the god of the dead. The term ancient Greece refers to the period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca Hades (from Greek, Hadēs, originally, Haidēs or, Aidēs, probably from Indo-European *n̥-wid- 'unseen' refers both to the ancient As well, on the hill situated above the cave lie the remnants of an ancient temple dedicated to the sea god Poseidon (Νεκρομαντείο του Ποσειδόνα). In Greek mythology, Poseidon ( Greek:; Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the Sea and as "Earth-Shaker" Under the Byzantine empire, the temple was converted into a Christian church, and Christian rites are conducted there to this day. This article is about the city See also Byzantine Empire. Byzantium ( Greek: Βυζάντιον Latin: la BYZANTIVM A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth
As the southernmost point of the Balkan Peninsula, the cape is on the migration route of birds headed to Africa.
At Cape Matapan, the Titanic's would-be rescue ship, the SS Californian, was torpedoed and sunk by German forces in 1915. Construction The Titanic was a White Star Line ocean liner built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland History Californian was a British steamship owned by the Leyland Line part of J The German Empire is the name commonly used in English to describe Germany from 1871 to 1918 when it was a semi- Constitutional monarchy: beginning with the Unification
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