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Definition of Hellespont
1. Noun. The strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey.
Group relationships: Republic Of Turkey, Turkey
Generic synonyms: Sound, Strait
Definition of Hellespont
1. n. A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Ægean Sea and the sea of Marmora.
Definition of Hellespont
1. Proper noun. The strait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea to the west. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hellespont
Literary usage of Hellespont
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1897)
"RM H«UM- The geographers who, with the most skilful accuracy, have surveyed the
font) and extent of the Hellespont, assign about sixty miles for the winding ..."
2. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"t * i Hellespont before him. But hearing that he was by at m Chios, ... The 3 ["
For the most potent &c. had Hellespont and Bosporus, the great brought over ..."
3. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1893)
"THE Hellespont AND MYSIA. The tide of the Hellespont now begins to run with
greater violence ... 9 Still known as Tenedos, near the mouth of the Hellespont. ..."
4. Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age by William Ewart Gladstone (1858)
"In later times, the name Hellespont has been restricted to the narrow strait
between the Sea of Marmora and the Archipelago. In Homer it bore this sense, ..."
5. A Short History of Greece by William Spry Robinson (1895)
"A squadron THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE Hellespont was sent thither, of which ten
ships only arrived, the rest being driven back by a storm; but they were ..."
6. Herodotus by Herodotus (1812)
"The former of these 55 On that of the Hellespont^—It seems a matter of certainty
that these ... T. Since the Hellespont, in the neighbourhood of Abydos, ..."
7. Troja: Results of the Latest Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Homer by Heinrich Schliemann, Archibald Henry Sayce (1884)
"THE ADVANCE OF THE SEA UPON THE SHORES OF THE Hellespont. ... 91, Mr. Frank Calvert's
learned dissertation on the Asiatic Coast of the Hellespont, ..."
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