Salamis was a Greek town on eastern coast of Cyprus; its situation was at the end of a fertile plain between two mountains, near the River Pediaeus. In 306 BCE, at Salamis, Demetrius I, Poliorcetes defeated Ptolemy I in a great naval battle. In 295 BCE, Salamis came under the control of the Ptolemaic kingdom, and in 58 BCE the Romans took control of Salamis. There have been limited excavations of the town. Its theater was constructed early in the (Roman) imperial period, probably during the reign of Augustus, and it was repaired and renovated during the first and second centuries CE. It has a semi-circular orchestra measuring c. 27m. in diameter, which was originally paved with marble tiles. South of the theater lay the forum or agora, and at the south end of the forum or agora was situated a temple to Zeus. There was a sizeable Jewish population in Salamis serviced by more than one synagogue (Acts 13:5).