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Hellespont

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Hel·les·pont  (hl-spnt)
See Dardanelles.
Hellespont [ˈhɛlɪˌspɒnt]
n
(Placename) the ancient name for the Dardanelles
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Noun1.HellespontHellespont - the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey
Canakkale Bogazi, Dardanelles
Republic of Turkey, Turkey - a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923
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Hellespont [ˈhelɪspɒnt] N → Helesponto m


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Within the Hellespont we saw where the original first shoddy contract mentioned in history was carried out, and the "parties of the second part" gently rebuked by Xerxes.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Themistocles made Xerxes, king of Persia, post apace out of Grecia, by giving out, that the Grecians had a purpose to break his bridge of ships, which he had made athwart Hellespont.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
Such are those to whom some state is given either for money or by the favour of him who bestows it; as happened to many in Greece, in the cities of Ionia and of the Hellespont, where princes were made by Darius, in order that they might hold the cities both for his security and his glory; as also were those emperors who, by the corruption of the soldiers, from being citizens came to empire.
The Prince by Machiavelli, Nicolo View in context
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