Sestos

American  

[ses-tos] / ˈsɛs tɒs /

noun

1. an ancient Thracian town on the Hellespont opposite Abydos: Xerxes crossed the Hellespont here when he began his invasion of Greece.

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Sestos British  

/ ˈsɛstɒs /

noun

1. a ruined town in NW Turkey, at the narrowest point of the Dardanelles: N terminus of the bridge of boats built by Xerxes in 481 _bc for the crossing of his armies of invasion

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Sestos

Went Hero thorough Sestos, from her tower To Venus' temple, where unhappily, As after chanc'd, they did each other spy.

From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen

At mid-day we entered the Dardanelles, and several hours afterwards, we cast anchor between Sestos and Abydos, before a small white town, containing no remarkable objects.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

On Hellespont, guilty of true-love's blood, In view and opposite two cities stood, Sea-borderers, disjoined by Neptune's might; The one Abydos, the other Sestos hight.

From Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe

Spence rock which breaks, is W. two-thirds S., distant 1¼ miles from Sestos Point; within 5 miles of it is the rock which The Corisco discovered in 1885.

From West African studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley

He was to pass from Europe into Asia by crossing the Hellespont between Sestos and Abydos.

From Alexander the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott