THE BLACK SEA
The Black Sea is without rival in changes of name expressive of human feelings towards it. To the ancient Greek (navigators it was at Brsfc known as the Pontata Axenog, the Inhospitable' Sea, on, account of the savagery shown by the natives of its shores. Later it beoame the Pontns Euxinus, the Hospitable Sea; either simply for tho sake of changing an ill-omened name to a flattering one, or in allusion to the growth of Greek commerce and colonisation round the sea. Finally the Turks called it the Black Sea, because its shelterless expanse, its storms, and its fogs contrasted with, the bright Aegean which they had previously known.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 7, 9 January 1915, Page 11
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112THE BLACK SEA Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 7, 9 January 1915, Page 11
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