1) Dardanelles 2) Dardanelles, anciently 3) Sound 4) Strait 5) Where Leander floundered
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1) Dardanelles
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• (n.) A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora.
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Hel'les·pont noun [ Latin
Hellespontus , Greek ...; ... the mythological Helle, daughter of Athamas + ... sea.] A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the
Daradanelles . It connects the Ægean Sea and the sea of Marmora.
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the ancient name for the Dardanelles, a strait northwest of Turkey, between Asian Turkey and the Gallipoli Peninsula of European Turkey, about 40 miles (64 km) long and one to four miles (1.6 to 6.4 km) wide; the Hellespont connects the Mediterranean and the Black Sea; the name Hellespont is derived from Helle, a woman who drowned in the waters of ...
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Former name of the Dardanelles, the strait that separates Europe from Asia
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