| ACTIUM | Promontory in western Greece; scene of a battle in 31 BC at which Octavian defeated Mark Antony (6) |
| LEUCTRA | Village in Boeotia, Ancient Greece; scene of a battle fought in July, 371 BC |
| LEPANTO | Port in Greece, scene of a 1571 naval battle (7) |
| PATRAI | Regional capital in western Greece (pop about 170,000), founded around 300 BC (6) |
| IONIAN | Sea lying between western Greece and southern Italy, south of the Adriatic (6) |
| ATTICA | Triangular promontory in eastern Greece (6) |
| SALAMIS | An island in the Saronic Gulf, Greece; scene of the naval battle in 480 BC in which the Greeks defeated the Persians (7) |
| MARCANTONY | Former member of the second triumvirate defeated by his brother-in-law Octavian at Actium in 31 BC (4.6) |
| AGRIPPA | Roman statesman and general whose fleet defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC (7) |
| ISSUS | Town in Asia Minor, scene of a battle in 333 BC in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians (5) |
| IPSUS | In 301 BC, which ancient village in central Asia Minor, in Phrygia, was the scene of a battle between the successors of Alexander the Great? (5) |
| FLODDEN | Hill in Northumberland, England, scene of a battle in 1513 at which James IV of Scotland was killed (7) |
| IWOJIMA | Pacific scene of a battle in which a well-known wartime photograph was taken |
| PASSERO | Cape ___ , a promontory in southern Sicily, the site of a major sea battle in 1718 (7) |
| PASS | Thermopylae: mountain ___ in Greece, scene of battle |
| CAMBRAI | French town on the River Scheldt, scene of a battle in the First World War in which massed tanks were first used (7) |
| SOMME | River of north-east France, scene of a battle of World War I (5) |
| RONCESVALLES | Pyrenean scene of a battle in 778 (12) |
| ALAMO | US mission, scene of a battle in 1836 (5) |
| IONIANSEA | Arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy (6,3) |
