Examples of using Hellespont in English and their translations into Vietnamese
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Lysimachus invaded Asia Minor from Thrace, crossing the Hellespont.
That sea is called Hellespont to this day in honor of her memory.
Once back in command, Lysander directed the Spartan fleet towards the Hellespont.
In 281 BC, Lysimachus crossed the Hellespont into Lydia, and at the decisive battle of Corupedium was killed.
The Roman navy with the Rhodians and other allies outmaneuvered and defeated the Seleucid navy,permitting the Roman army to cross the Hellespont.
Agesilaus set out for Sparta with his troops, crossing the Hellespont and marching west through Thrace.
The mega tankers were constructed by the Daewoo Shipbuilding& Marine Engineering in Okpo,South Korea in 2003 for the company Hellespont.
The next year(277 BC), Antigonus sailed to the Hellespont, landing near Lysimachia at the neck of the Thracian Chersonese.
His mistake was in assuming that the moon was directly overhead,thus miscalculating the angle difference between Hellespont and Alexandria.
He captured Byzantium, imposed a duty on ships passing through the Hellespont, and collected tribute from many of the islands of the Aegean.
Craterus and Neoptolemus, satrap of Armenia,were completely defeated by Eumenes in a battle somewhere near the Hellespont in 321 BC.
The invasion began in spring 480 BC,when the Persian army crossed the Hellespont and marched through Thrace and Macedon to Thessaly.
The giant tanker was built by Daewoo Ship Engineering& Marine Engineering in Okpo, South Korea,in 2003 for the Hellespont company.
And seeing all the Hellespont covered over with the ships and all the shores and the plains of Abydos full of men, then Xerxes pronounced himself a happy man, and after that he fell to weeping.
He was killed in battle against Eumenes in Asia Minor when his charging horse fell over him,somewhere near the Hellespont, in 321 BC.
Hipparchus noted that on March 14 of thatyear there was a total solar eclipse in Hellespont, Turkey, while at the same time farther south in Alexandria, Egypt, the moon covered only four-fifths of the sun.
The English name Abydos comes from the Greek Ἄβυδος,a name borrowed by Greek geographers from the unrelated city of Abydos on the Hellespont.
By this point, not only was Licinius the official Augustus of the west buthe also possessed part of the eastern provinces as well, as the Hellespont and the Bosporus became the dividing line, with Licinius taking the European provinces and Maximinus taking the Asian.[4].
After suffering a defeat at the hands of the Rhodian and Pergamese fleets, Philip withdrew,but not before attacking the city of Abydos on the Hellespont.
Knowing the baseline distance between Hellespont and Alexandria- 9 degrees of latitude or about 600 miles(965 km), along with the angular displacement of the edge of the moon against the sun(about one-tenth of a degree), he calculated the distance to the moon to be about 350,000 miles(563,300 km), which was nearly 50 percent too far.
So Agesilaus II frustrated the plans of his former mentor andleft Lysander in command of the troops in the Hellespont, far from Sparta and mainland Greece.
Nothing is known of his early career until 342 BC, when he was appointed by Philip to govern Macedon as his regent while the former left for three years of hard and successful campaigning against Thracian and Scythian tribes,which extended Macedonian rule as far as the Hellespont.
By early 480 BC, the preparations were complete, and the army which Xerxes had mustered at Sardis marched towards Europe,crossing the Hellespont on two pontoon bridges.
Lysander(/ l aɪ ˈ s æ n d ər, ˈ l aɪ ˌ s æ n d ər/; died 395 BC, Greek: Λύσανδρος, Lýsandros)was a Spartan admiral who commanded the Spartan fleet in the Hellespont which defeated the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC.
Sparta had now built a fleet(with the help of the Persians) to challenge Athenian naval supremacy, and had found a brilliant military leader in Lysander,who seized the strategic initiative by occupying the Hellespont, the source of Athens' grain imports.
Alarmed by the sudden reappearance of something resembling the Athenian empire that had driven them from the Aegean in the fifth century, the Persians began supporting Sparta,and a Persian fleet was soon in the Hellespont, threatening Athens' grain supply.