Histories

Darius, after rewarding Mandrocles, crossed over to Europe (continent)Europe; he had told the Ionians to sail into the +Black Sea [38,42] (sea) Pontus as far as the Ister river, and when they got to the Ister, to wait there for him, bridging the river meanwhile; for the fleet was led by Ionians and Aeolians and men of the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont.

So the fleet passed between the Dark Rocks and sailed straight for the Ister and, after a two days' voyage up the river from the sea, set about bridging the narrow channel of the river where its various mouths separate.

But Darius, passing over the Karadeniz Bogazi (strait), Istanbul, Marmara, Turkey, AsiaBosporus on the floating bridge of ships, journeyed through Thrace (region (general)), EuropeThrace to the sources of the Tearus river, where he camped for three days.

The Tearus is said by those living on it to be the best river of all for purposes of healing, especially for healing mange in men and horses. Its springs are thirty-eight in number, some cold and some hot, all flowing from the same rock.