Between Turkey and the Balkans...a small body of water also called the dardenelles.
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When Alexander the great crossed the Hellespont he was leading an army of 42.000 men that reached in its peak 100.000 men according to ancient sources Arrian, Plutarch, Diodorus etc.
Men had to be fit and often had to go to war.
Most ancient civilisations built aqueducts because of the importance of water. There were aqueducts both in Greece and Rome. The Roman aqueducts are more famous.
The Olympics were invented in Ancient Greece
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They crossed over and marched on into mainland Greece.
When Alexander the great crossed the Hellespont he was leading an army of 42.000 men that reached in its peak 100.000 men according to ancient sources Arrian, Plutarch, Diodorus etc.
Men had to be fit and often had to go to war.
Men had to be fit and often had to go to war.
Troy was an ancient city. It was conquered by the Greeks as described by Homer in The Iliad. It was located in what is now Turkey, east of Greece across the Aegean Sea and overlooking the Hellespont/Dardanelles.
"Hellespont" is the ancient name for the Dardanelles, which is a strait that separates Asian Turkey from the Gallipoli peninsula of European Turkey, and links the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara.
Hellespont is not a city it is a strait
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Most ancient civilisations built aqueducts because of the importance of water. There were aqueducts both in Greece and Rome. The Roman aqueducts are more famous.
the importance was that they had plenty of beliefs about the land forms. they were well trusted.
Leander swam the Hellespont nightly.