Histories

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.