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BLACK SEA (Sea) TURKEY
(Pontos Euxeinos), or simply Pontus (Pontos). Now the Black
Sea. The great inland sea enclosed by Asia Minor on the south, Colchis on the
east, Sarmatia on the north, and Dacia and Thracia on the west, and having no
other outlet than the narrow Bosporus Thracius in its southwestern corner. Its
length is about 700 miles, and its breadth varies from 400 to 160. The Argonautic
legends show that the Greeks had some acquaintance with this sea at a very early
period. It is said that they at first called it Axenos ("inhospitable"),
from the savage character of the peoples on its coast and from the supposed
terrors of its navigation, and that afterwards, on their favourite principle
of euphemism (i. e. abstaining from words of evil omen), they changed its name
to Euxenos (Ion. Euxeinos), "hospitable". The Greeks of Asia Minor,
especially the people of Miletus, founded many colonies and commercial emporiums
on its shores.
This text is cited Sep 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Pontus Euxinus, Black Sea, Euxinus Pontos, Pontus
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