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Examples from Classical Literature
The length of the Propontis from the Troad to Byzantium is stated to be 1500 stadia.
The people of Adrasteia occupied the Propontis, as far as the Granicus.
The cargo was left on the bottom of the Propontis for over 48 hours and luckily no one was killed.
In the Propontis, as far as I can learn, none of that peculiar substance called brit is to be found, the aliment of the right whale.
Now, as a vessel of war readily passes through the Dardanelles, hence a sperm whale could, by the same route, pass out of the Mediterranean into the Propontis.
The shores of the Straits of Sunda are unsupplied with those domineering fortresses which guard the entrances to the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and the Propontis.
Cyriacus of Ancona's Journeys in the Propontis and the Northern Aegean.
Next follows the coast of the Chalcedonians, the bay of Astacus,1207 as it is called, which is a part of the propontis.
The journey along the northern shore of the propontis was accomplished in safety.
Whoever possesses the Bosphorus, propontis, and Archipelago, must become a maritime nation in spite of treaties.
He had then marched to Heraeon on the propontis, and had dictated a peace to Cersobleptes.
Then the parts below the propontis, extending as far as Lectum.
Thasos868 was founded by Parians, and Parium,869 a city in the propontis.
Strabo speaks generally of the cities round the propontis in this sense.
