Hellespont

The navigation from the issue of the Bosphorus to the entrance of the Hellespont is about one hundred and twenty miles.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

The more diligent of the strangers had retreated, on the first alarm, to their vessels, and escaped through the Hellespont from the scene of blood.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

The naval victory of the Hellespont is fixed to the month Apellaeus, the tenth of the Calends of

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

The people afterward named it in memory of her, calling it 'Hellespont' -- 'Helle's Sea.'

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles Padraic Colum 1926

The Hellespont is a narrow ribbon of water, about thirty-eight miles long, separating Anatolia from the continent of Europe.

The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

The Hellespont is a narrow ribbon of water, about thirty-eight miles long, separating Anatolia from the continent of Europe.

The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

This Bosphorus extends to the Propontis; and the Propontis, being in breadth five hundred furlongs and in length one thousand four hundred, has its outlet into the Hellespont, which is but seven furlongs broad at the narrowest place, though it is four hundred furlongs in length: and the Hellespont runs out into that expanse of sea which is called the Egean.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

Hellespont, that is presenting their prows (or sterns) to the stream, yet this did not mean that they pointed straight towards the Propontis and Euxine; for the stream after passing Sestos runs almost from North to South with even a slight tendency to the East

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

The Hellespont was a small slice of No Man's Land.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

The Hellespont was the true crossroads between East and West.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993