The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location
Dardanelles
Also known as Çanakkale Boğazı
- other
- Natural with military fortifications
The narrow strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara, the maritime gate of Constantinople. Gibbon treats the passage as the strategic throat of Byzantine naval and crusading movement.
- Type
- other
- Style
- Natural with military fortifications
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 294
- Books
- 1
History
BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
The narrow strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara, the maritime gate of Constantinople. Gibbon treats the passage as the strategic throat of Byzantine naval and crusading movement.
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