Crossword clues for hellespont
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hellespont \Hel"les*pont\, n. [L. Hellespontus, Gr. ?; ? the mythological Helle, daughter of Athamas + ? sea.] A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the [AE]gean Sea and the sea of Marmora.
Usage examples of "hellespont".
Dyrrachium was the northern and Apollonia the southern terminus of the Via Egnatia, the Roman road east to Thrace and the Hellespont.
Dyrrachium and Apollonia in western Macedonia with the Hellespont and Byzantium.
Though most men heading for Asia Province sailed, Caesar had decided to go by land, a distance of eight hundred miles along the Via Egnatia from Apollonia in western Macedonia to Callipolis on the Hellespont.
A second army corps guarded the long overland route from Attica to the Hellespont.
Below, to the north, is the land where we live, with Constantinople on the Hellespont, and Greece, and Rome, and in the extreme north the Germanians and the Hibernian Island.
To the northwest, beyond the Hellespont, I can see the twin peaks of Samothrace, and if the weather were clearer to the west, I could see the summit of Mount Athos.
For you must go eastward and eastward ever, over the doleful Lybian shore, which Poseidon gave to Father Zeus, when he burst open the Bosphorus and the Hellespont, and drowned the fair Lectonian land.
From thence issuing again through the narrow passage of the Hellespont, they pursued their winding navigation amidst the numerous islands scattered over the Archipelago, or the Aegean Sea.
The naval victory of the Hellespont is fixed to the month Apellaeus, the tenth of the Calends of January, (December 23.
The naval victory of the Hellespont is fixed to the month Apellaeus, the tenth of the Calends of January, (December 23.
The books about sport and mountaineering, of fifty years ago, tell of his exploits as an athlete, and of his mountain climbings in Switzerland and Mexico, and there is a book of famous bets called Light Come Light Go, in which you can read of how for a bet he swam the Thames in evening clothes and a high hat — but later on, and more romantically, he swam the Hellespont like Leander and Lord Byron.
That would give him clear sailing through the Hellespont into the Sea of Black Waters.
In 1353 the Turks had seized Gallipoli, key of the Hellespont, and thereby entered Europe.
On either side of the Hellespont his episcopal vigor imposed a rigid formulary of faith and discipline.