Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

Of the people of the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont, the people of Abydus [26.416,40.2] (deserted settlement), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Abydos had been charged by the king to remain at home and guard the bridges; the rest of the people from +Black Sea [38,42] (sea) Pontus who came with the army furnished a hundred ships and were equipped like Greeks. They were settlers from the Ionians and Dorians.