hellespont in English

noun
1
the ancient name for the Dardanelles, named after the legendary Helle, who fell into the strait and was drowned while escaping with her brother Phrixus from their stepmother, Ino, on a golden-fleeced ram.

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1. The Argives reach the fleet and the Hellespont in rout

2. His ashes were deposited in a golden urn on the Rhoetean promontory at the entrance of the Hellespont.

3. Thracian Chersonese, ancient region comprising the modern Gallipoli Peninsula, located on the European side of the Hellespont (the Dardanelles, in modern Turkey)

4. The invasion began in spring 480 BC, when the Persian army crossed the Hellespont and marched through Thrace and Macedon to Thessaly.

5. From the Mediterranean sea and Hellespont in the west to the Indus River in the east, Cyrus the Great created the largest empire the world had yet seen.

6. For the armies of the East were dispersed in all directions, because the Turks had over-spread, and gained command of, countries between the Euxine Sea and the Hellespont, and the Aegean Sea and Syrian Seas , and the various bays, especially those which wash Pamphylia, Cilicia, and empty themselves into the Egyptian Sea .