Propontis
Britishnoun
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After passing the Hellespont, they found in the Propontis, which we call the Sea of Marmora, an islet called the Bears’ Hill, inhabited by giants with six arms, whom they slew.
From Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
There was such a dearth of men to defend the home provinces that the barbarians rode unhindered over the whole country side from the Danube to the Propontis plundering and burning.
From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick
With what declivity the Water runs out of the Euxine-Sea into the Propontis?
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry
She afterwards became a nun, and he for his part built two monasteries in Mysia; one of which, called Megal-Agre, near the Propontis, he governed himself.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban
She cites, as witness to her word, The frowning Adriatic strand; The Cyclades which rocks engird, And noted Rhodus’ distant land; Propontis and unkindly Thrace, And Savage Pontus’ billowy race.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
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