Cape Tenaro (Greek: Ταίναρο) also known as Cape Tainaro (older forms: Tenaron and Tainaron) and Cape Matapan is situated in Mani, Laconia, Greece. Tenero happens to be the most southern point of mainland Greece and Europe but a peninsula in Spain is the southernmost which Tenaro ranks third. Cape Tenaro is the southernmost point in mainland Greece, hundreds of metres off the second southernmost point in the Peloponnese peninsula. Tenaro has been an important place for thousands of years. The ancient Spartans built a temple dedicated to Poseidon the god of water. Tenaro was once the place were mercenaries waited to be employed. More recently a lighthouse was constructed but it is now in disuse. In March 1941 off the coast of Tenaro, a major naval battle--The Battle of Cape Matapan--occured between the British Navy and the Italian Navy in which the British emerged victorious in a one sided encounter. The Battle's main result was to dratically reduce any future Italian naval activity into the Eastern Mediterranean. According to ancient Greek legend there is a cave at the tip of Tenaro. In that cave were Hades the god of the dead, lived. Birds dominate the southern part of the cape Mani may have one of the following meanings. ... Laconia (Λακωνία; see also List of traditional Greek place names), also known as Lacedaemonia, was in ancient Greece the portion of the Peloponnesus of which the most important city was Sparta. ... World map showing Europe (geographically) When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... Greece and the Peloponnese The Peloponnese or Peloponnesus (Greek: Πελοπόννησος Peloponnesos; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a large peninsula in southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth. ... This article needs cleanup. ... The word temple has different meanings in the fields of architecture, religion, geography, anatomy, and education. ... Andrea Doria as Neptune by Agnolo Bronzino: a potent allegory of Genoas hegemony in the Tyrrhenian Sea In Greek Mythology, Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν) was the god of the sea, known to the Romans as Neptune, and to the Etruscans as Nethuns. ... Mercenary (disambiguation). ... Battle of Cape Matapan Conflict World War II Date March 27, 1941 – March 29, 1941 Place Mediterranean off United Kingdom, Italy Commanders Andrew Cunningham Angelo Iachino Strength 3 battleships, 1 carrier, 7 light cruisers, 17 destroyers 1 battleship, 6 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 17 destroyers Casualties 1 torpedo plane... The Royal Navy is the navy of the United Kingdom. ... Pre-unitarian navies of the Italian states Regia Marina - Royal Navy of the Kingdom of Italy (1861 - 1946) Marina Militare - Navy of the Italian Republic (1946 - today) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Hades (Greek: - HadÄ“s or - HáidÄ“s) (unseen) means both the ancient Greek abode of the dead and the god of that underworld. ...

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• http://www.mani.org.gr/en/villages/an_mani/tain/tain.htm