coast of the Hellespont (the straits of Dardanelles), opposite the ancient city of Sestos, and near the city of Çanakkale in Turkey. Abydos was founded...
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Abydos (Hellespont), an ancient city in Mysia, Asia Minor Abydos (Stargate), name of a fictional planet in the Stargate science fiction universe Abydos, Egypt...
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English name Abydos comes from the Greek Ἄβυδος, a name borrowed by Greek geographers from the unrelated city of Abydos on the Hellespont. Abydos name in hieroglyphs...
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of the same name by Lord Byron, written after he had swum the Hellespont between Abydos and Sestos in imitation of Leander. Base Joconde: La Fiancée d'Abydos...
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European side of the Hellespont, and Leander (Ancient Greek: Λέανδρος, Léandros; [lé.an.dros] or Λείανδρος), a young man from Abydos on the opposite side...
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Dardanelles (redirect from Hellespont)
of Darius) had two pontoon bridges built across the width of the Hellespont at Abydos, in order that his huge army could cross from Persia into Greece...
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The Abydos boats are the remnants of a group of ancient royal Egyptian ceremonial boats found at an archaeological site in Abydos, Egypt. Discovered in...
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Dorieus, accordingly, sailed north from Rhodes towards the Hellespont. Before reaching Abydos, however, he was spotted by Athenian lookouts and driven ashore...
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east: Stryme Abdera Ismaros Maroneia Samothrace Aenus Lysimachia Abydos, Hellespont Alopeconnesus Aegospotami Callipolis Cardia Elaeus Sestus Bisanthe...
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Xerxes' pontoon bridges (redirect from Xerxes' bridge across the Hellespont)
Xerxes and his huge army were marching from Sardes to Abydos, then an important harbor on the Hellespont, two bridges were built from there to the opposite...
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Mysia, as well as the Hellespont or modern day Dardanelles and the Gallipoli Peninsula. Main cities included Abydos (Hellespont), Cyzicus and Kallipolis)...
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Diocese of Abydos (Greek: Επισκοπή Αβύδου) is titular see of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Abydos (Ancient Greek: Ἄβυδος, Latin: Abydus)...
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into the Hellespont, where he brushed aside a small Athenian fleet and joined the few allied ships in the region in the Spartan base at Abydos. With this...
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further rebellions at Rhodes and Euboea, and the capture of Abydos and Lampsacus on the Hellespont by a Peloponnesian army that had marched there overland...
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been 86 triremes. The Athenian force entered the Hellespont, and, passing the Spartan base at Abydos by night so as to conceal their numbers, established...
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Chersonese peninsula on the European coast of the Hellespont, opposite the ancient city of Abydos, and near the town of Eceabat in Turkey. In Greek mythology...
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British Museum I 6 Assyrian lion weights 1845–1860 800–500 BC Nimrud, Abydos (Hellespont) British Museum, Louvre 263 II 1–14, 108 446c 66-67 Phoenician metal...
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Venus and Adonis, she is seen by Leander, a youth from Abydos on the opposite side of the Hellespont. Leander falls in love with her, and she reciprocates...
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coast of the Hellespont, opposite the ancient city of Sestos, and near the city of Çanakkale in Turkey. Eastern Orthodox bishopric of Abydos appears in...
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The Battle of the Hellespont, consisting of two separate naval clashes, was fought in 324 between a Constantinian fleet, led by the eldest son of Constantine...
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Αἰγοσάγες, Aigoságes) were a Celtic tribe dwelling on both sides of the Hellespont, first in Thrace and then in Troas and Mysia on the Asian side. Coming...
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the area of Halicarnassus, now in Turkey Chryse (Hellespont), located between Ophrynion and Abydos Chryse (Bithynia), close to Chalcedon Chryse, Gaidaronisi...
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Nicaea) Abu'l-Qasim Ali ibn al-Hasan al-Kalbi Abu Thabit Abydikos Abydos (Hellespont) Abydos, Diocese of Acacius, Church of Saint Acacius, Patriarch of Constantinople...
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and the emperor. Henry agreed to the offer. Boniface sent Agnes to Abydos, Hellespont, Mysia through a galley. His messengers then reached Henry with information...
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The invasion began in spring 480 BC, when the Persian army crossed the Hellespont and marched through Thrace and Macedon to Thessaly. The Persian advance...
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occupied the whole of the northwest corner of Asia Minor, between the Hellespont and the Propontis to the north, Bithynia and Phrygia to the east, Lydia...
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maritime traffic. The term most likely derives from the city of Abydos on the Hellespont, and evidently originally referred to an official responsible for...
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Palaephatus (section "Palaephatus of Abydos")
student of Aristotle about 340 BCE, who came from the area around the Hellespont to Athens, and is called the Egyptian, sometimes, because he wrote on...
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cunning and inventiveness. In 411 BCE he was appointed harmost at Abydos in the Hellespont. In 399 BCE he was told by Antisthenes of Sparta that his command...
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Revolt. In 480 BC, Xerxes personally led a large army and crossed the Hellespont into Europe. He achieved victories at Thermopylae and Artemisium before...
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