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Euxine

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[yook-sin, -sahyn] / ˈyuk sɪn, -saɪn /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Black Sea.


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This gave him time to escape, and he fled in a fishing boat out into the Euxine with a few friends and servants who had followed him into exile.

From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick

Others, like Sophocles, described the return voyage as differing from the outward course only in taking the northern instead of the southern shore of the Euxine.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

He travelled through the countries north and east of the Euxine, and visited the Hyperboreans, Issedonians and Arimaspians, who fought against the gold-guarding griffins.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

Towards the north it is bounded by the Matieni and Cadusians, on the west it extends to the Saspeires, who dwell close to the tribes which lie on the Euxine.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max

St. Basil laboured along the wild shores of the Euxine.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole